What is Richard Nelson Frye?
{{Infobox scientist | image = Frye Ghirshman.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption =Frye and Ghirshman |birth_name = Richard Nelson Frye | birth_date = {{Birth date |1920|01|10}} | birth_place = [[Birmingham, Alabama]], [[United States|U.S.]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|03|27|1920|01|10}} | death_place = [[Boston, Massachusetts]], [[United States|U.S.]] | nationality = American | fields = [[Iranian studies]] | workplaces = [[Goethe University Frankfurt]] <br> [[University of Hamburg]] <br> [[Shiraz University]] <br> [[Tajik State National University]] <br> [[Harvard University]] | alma_mater = [[University of Illinois]] <br /> [[Harvard University]] | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = [[Arthur Pope]] <br /> [[Walter Bruno Henning]] | doctoral_students = | notable_students = [[Annemarie Schimmel]] <br /> [[Oleg Grabar]] <br /> [[Frank Huddle]] <br /> [[John Limbert]] <br /> [[Michael Crichton]] | awards = Farabi International Award <br> [[Khwarizmi International Award]] | spouse = [[Eden Naby]] }} '''Richard Nelson Frye''' (January 10, 1920 – March 27, 2014) was an [[Americans|American]] professor. He was the Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at [[Harvard University]].<ref>[http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~turkish/relfaculty.html Richard Nelson Frye, Aga Khan Professor of Iranian-Emeritus Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations]</ref><ref>[http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~iohp/frye.html Richard Nelson Frye]</ref> His professional areas of interest were Iranian [[philology]] and the history of [[Iran]] and [[Central Asia]] before 1000 CE. Frye died in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]] from natural causes, aged 94. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Frye, Richard Nelson}} [[Category:1920 births]] [[Category:2014 deaths]] [[Category:American historians]] [[Category:American teachers]] [[Category:Writers from Birmingham, Alabama]] [[Category:Educators from Birmi