Background
Pyriadi was born in 1933 in the small village of Ali Mansour near Chamchamal in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Pyriadi was born in 1933 in the small village of Ali Mansour near Chamchamal in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Pyriadi was born in 1933 in the small village of Ali Mansour near Chamchamal in Iraqi Kurdistan. He was the first graduate in his class since the first year of primary school, secondary school and college to receive a Bachelor of Science (Honors) in chemistry.
He received the Prime Minister"s prize for ranking first in his class.
In 1952 he was trained in Secreen in the north of Iraq as part of his military service. He was the first graduate, and was awarded a prize. In 1967 he obtained his Master of Science degree in biochemistry from Oklahoma State University–Stillwater, in Stillwater, Oklahoma, in the United States of America. He returned to Baghdad, Iraq when he was offered a position in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Baghdad.
He was promoted to professor in 1988.
He was the first to bring polymer chemistry and chemical literature as new subjects to be taught in Iraqi universities. He has also written textbooks and laboratory manuals in both subjects.
He worked at the University of Sulaimania between 1972 and 1975. In 1975 he did a post-doctorate at the University of Arizona, in Tucson, Arizona, United States, with professor H. K. Hall, Junior., in the field of organic polymers.
In 1982 he worked at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in the United States Department of Chemistry.
He was a visiting professor, performing a post doctorate with the late professor C. G. Overberger. He was the first Iraqi professor to participate in writing the recent polymeric material Encyclopedia J.Salamon ed 13 volume Cyclic Redundancy Check press, vol3 and 8, 1996. He was selected as "First Professor Of The Year in 1996-1997.
His name is listed in "Who"s Who in Iraq in the 20th Century, volume 1, page 72, 1990.
Additional contributions by professor Thanun Pyriadi since 2006 up till now.
In June,15,2006 he received the ( prize of chemistry and physics ) from the society of chemistry and physics in Karkouk. * He received a prize in the anniversary celebration of ( Kurdistan teacher ) in June,2006 in Kakouk. * In June,18,2012 he received the ( Galawez award ) for excellence by Roshenbery center in Kakouk.
