Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl ( fa, ابوالحسن آستانه‌اصل; born 1947 in

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) is an

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ian-American academic,

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and

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. He was one of the leading structural engineers to investigate the collapse of the

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towers on the

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20th-century Iranian engineers Iranian expatriate academics Amirkabir University of Technology alumni UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni Scientists from Tabriz 1947 births Living people Iranian emigrants to the United States American people of Iranian-Azerbaijani descent {{US-academic-bio-stub