Famous People with Name Arkan

Arkan Simaan            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Arkan Simaan: is a French historian of science and a novelist.When he was two years old, his family immigrated to Brazil and settled in the city of Anápolis near to Brasilia. In 1964 a military coup d’etat overthrew the government of João Goulart just as Simaan had begun studying physics at the University of São Paulo. In response to this, he became a student activist. Sought by the political police and sentenced to jail in absentia, he went underground. His name was then cited in several prosecutions. Forced to flee Brazil, he arrived in Paris in 1970.

Arkangel De La Muerte            Origin/Culture/Country: Mexican

Arkangel De La Muerte: is a luchador enmascarado, or masked professional wrestler, best known for his work in the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). he is often referred to as just Arkangel. He previous worked under the ring name "Mi

Nima Arkani-Hamed            Origin/Culture/Country: Parsi

Nima Arkani-Hamed: a leading Persian-American theoretical physicist with interests in high-energy physics, string theory and cosmology.Arkani-Hamed graduated from the University of Toronto with a Joint Honours degree in Mathematics and Physics, and went to the University of California, Berkeley for his graduate studies, where he worked under the supervision of Lawrence Hall. He completed his PhD in 1997 and went to SLAC at Stanford University for post-doctoral studies. During this time he worked with Savas Dimopoulos on large extra dimensions.In 1999 he joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley physics department. He took a leave of absence from Berkeley to visit Harvard University in the spring 2001. Shortly after arriving at Harvard he worked with Howard Georgi and Andrew Cohen on the idea of emergent extra dimensions, dubbed dimensional deconstruction. These ideas eventually led to the development of little Higgs theories.