The Most Famous
PHYSICISTS from Egypt
This page contains a list of the greatest Egyptian Physicists. The pantheon dataset contains 717 Physicists, 1 of which were born in Egypt. This makes Egypt the birth place of the 48th most number of Physicists behind Morocco and Slovenia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Egyptian Physicists of all time. This list of famous Egyptian Physicists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Sameera Moussa (1917 - 1952)
With an HPI of 53.34, Sameera Moussa is the most famous Egyptian Physicist. Her biography has been translated into 25 different languages on wikipedia.
Sameera Moussa or Samira Musa Aly (Egyptian Arabic: سميرة موسى) (March 3, 1917 – August 15, 1952) was the first female Egyptian nuclear physicist. Sameera held a doctorate in atomic radiation. She hoped her work would one day lead to affordable medical treatments and the peaceful use of atomic energy. She organized the Atomic Energy for Peace Conference and sponsored a call that set an international conference under the banner "Atoms for Peace." She was the first woman to work at Cairo University.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as physicists born between 1917 and 1917. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased physicists include Sameera Moussa.
