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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 an Egyptian atomic scientist and physicist, she is the first female Egyptian nuclear physicist. Moussa 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 277,023 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Sameera Moussa is the 385th most popular physicist (up from 430th in 2019), the 304th most popular biography from Egypt (up from 341st in 2019) and the most popular Egyptian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Sameera Moussa ranks 385 out of 851. Before her are Ralph Asher Alpher, Georgy Flyorov, Duncan Haldane, Hiroshi Amano, Oskar Klein, and Christopher Polhem. After her are Robert Brout, Louis Poinsot, Wolfgang Ketterle, George Johnstone Stoney, John Henry Poynting, and Franz Aepinus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Sameera Moussa ranks 105. Before her are Urie Bronfenbrenner, Irving Penn, Vasily Petrov, Erich Rudorffer, Luis Carniglia, and John Connally. After her are Giuseppe De Santis, Dondinho, Sharof Rashidov, Vera Lynn, Džemal Bijedić, and László Szabó. Among people deceased in 1952, Sameera Moussa ranks 52. Before her are Viktor Chernov, Hiranuma Kiichirō, William Fox, Luigi Fagioli, Solomiya Krushelnytska, and Henri Winkelman. After her are Efim Bogoljubov, Jigme Wangchuck, Kenwa Mabuni, Otto Dietrich, Yitzhak Sadeh, and Louise d'Orléans.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Sameera Moussa ranks 304 out of 642. Before her are Berenice (-300), Edmond Jabès (1912), Nikare (-2200), Osorkon III (-900), Julius Pollux (200), and Qasim Amin (1863). After her are Djedefhor (-2600), Shadia (1931), Al-Musta'li (1076), Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898), Pope Anianus of Alexandria (100), and Soad Hosny (1943).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Egypt

Among physicists born in Egypt, Sameera Moussa ranks 1. 

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