The Most Famous
Chemists from Egypt
Trending Chemists from Egypt This Week
The top 10 Chemists from Egypt trending on Wikipedia in the past 7 days, with a quick note on what drove the spike.
- #1
Ahmed Zewail
1946 - 2016
Trending in Arabic (#258) Wikipedia (269 views, on Apr 28).
Top 3 Egyptian Chemists
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Egyptians Chemists of all time. This list of famous Egyptians Chemists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
- #1
Dorothy Hodgkin
1910 - 1994
HPI 75.0992 langsDorothy Hodgkin is most famous for her work in the field of X-ray crystallography. This is a technique used to determine the...Read moreShow less
Dorothy Hodgkin is most famous for her work in the field of X-ray crystallography. This is a technique used to determine the three-dimensional structures of molecules.
- #2
Ahmed Zewail
1946 - 2016
HPI 68.8268 langsAhmed Zewail is most famous for his work on femtochemistry. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1999 for his work on femtochemistry.
- #3
Rashad Khalifa
1935 - 1990
HPI 60.3817 langsEgyptian-American biochemist (1935-1990)
Overlapping Lives
Which Chemists were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 3 most globally memorable Chemists since 1700.
