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Sameera Moussa

1917 - 1952

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sameera Moussa has received more than 248,483 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Sameera Moussa is the 430th most popular physicist (up from 452nd in 2019), the 342nd most popular biography from Egypt (up from 352nd in 2019) and the most popular Egyptian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Sameera Moussa ranks 430 out of 717Before her are Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Yulii Khariton, Walther Gerlach, Rudolf Peierls, Evgeny Lifshitz, and Alain Aspect. After her are Marie Alfred Cornu, John Dollond, Gene Amdahl, Gaspard de Prony, Saul Perlmutter, and Giovanni Battista Amici.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Sameera Moussa ranks 139Before her are Donald Davidson, Kerim Kerimov, Han Suyin, Raymond Burr, Robert Conquest, and Isang Yun. After her are Mongo Santamaría, Fulbert Youlou, Shams Pahlavi, Desi Arnaz, Georgy Vitsin, and Marsha Hunt. Among people deceased in 1952, Sameera Moussa ranks 71Before her are Vladimír Clementis, René Grousset, Vasili Eroshenko, Keisuke Okada, Theodoros Pangalos, and Richard Hildebrandt. After her are Sergei Bortkiewicz, Rued Langgaard, Johan Nygaardsvold, Takenoshin Nakai, Matrona Nikonova, and Carlo Sforza.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Sameera Moussa ranks 342 out of 582Before her are Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria (1902), Timocharis (-320), Mustafa Ben Halim (1921), André Aciman (1951), Olympiodorus of Thebes (301), and Ahmed Aboul Gheit (1942). After her are Moshé Mizrahi (1931), Albert Cossery (1913), Apollonius Dyscolus (200), Nebetah (-1350), Ibn Taghribirdi (1410), and Sayed Darwish (1892).

Among PHYSICISTS In Egypt

Among physicists born in Egypt, Sameera Moussa ranks 1