The Most Famous

Chemists from Egypt

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This page contains a list of the greatest Egyptians Chemists. The pantheon dataset contains 602 Chemists, 3 of which were born in Egypt. This makes Egypt the birth place of the 25th most number of Chemists behind Latvia and China.

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. #1
    Photo of Dorothy Hodgkin

    Dorothy Hodgkin

    1910 - 1994

    HPI 75.0992 langs
    Dorothy 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. #2
    Photo of Ahmed Zewail

    Ahmed Zewail

    1946 - 2016

    HPI 68.8268 langs

    Ahmed Zewail is most famous for his work on femtochemistry. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1999 for his work on femtochemistry.

  3. #3
    Photo of Rashad Khalifa

    Rashad Khalifa

    1935 - 1990

    HPI 60.3817 langs

    Egyptian-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.

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