Historical personalities of your Egypt

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HISTORICAL PERSONALITIES
OF YOUR EGYPT
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hassanein
First: Ahmed Zewail
Second: Magdi Yacoub
Thatha: Naguib Mahfouz

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Born
Ahmed Hassan Zewail
February 26, 1946
Damanhour, Egypt
Died
August 2, 2016 (aged 70)
Pasadena, California, U.S.
Nationality
Egyptian
Alma mater
•University of Alexandria (B.S., M.S.)
Early life and education
Ahmed Hassan Zewail was born on February 26, 1946,
in Damanhur, Egypt, and was raised in Desouk.[4] He
received a Bachelor of Science and Master of
Science degrees in Chemistry from Alexandria
University before moving to the United States to complete
his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania supervised
by Robin M. Hochstrasser.[1][5]

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After completing his PhD, Zewail did postdoctoral research at the University of
California, Berkeley, supervised by Charles Bonner Harris.[1] Following this, he was
awarded a faculty appointment at the California Institute of Technology in 1976,
and he made the first Linus Pauling Chair in Chemical Physics.[1] He became
a naturalized citizen of the United States on 5 March 1982.[6] Zewail was the director
of the Physical Biology Center for Ultrafast Science and Technology at
the California Institute of Technology.[7]
Zewail had been nominated and participated in President Barack
Obama's Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), an
advisory group of the nation's leading scientists and engineers to advise the
President and Vice President and formulate policy in the areas of science,
technology, and innovation.[8]

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In 1999, Zewail became the first Egyptian and the first Arab to receive a
science Nobel Prize when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in
Chemistry.[4] Zewail gave his Nobel Lecture on "Femtochemistry: Atomic-Scale
Dynamics of the Chemical Bond Using Ultrafast Lasers".[19][20] In 1999, he
received Egypt's highest state honor, the Grand Collar of the Nile.[1] In
October 2006, Zewail received the Albert Einstein World Award of Science for
"his pioneering development of the new field of femtoscience and for his
seminal contributions to the revolutionary discipline of physical biology,
creating new ways for better understanding the functional behavior of
biological systems by directly visualizing them in the four dimensions of
space and time."[21]
Other international awards include the King Faisal International
Prize (1989),[1] Wolf Prize in Chemistry (1993) awarded to him by the Wolf
Foundation,[1] the Tolman Award (1997),[1] the Robert A. Welch
Award (1997),[1] the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of
Achievement (2000),[22] the Othmer Gold Medal (2009),[23][24] the Priestley
Medal (2011) from the American Chemical Society[25] and the Davy
Medal (2011) from the Royal Society.

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Born
16 November 1935 (age 84)
Bilbeis, Kingdom of Egypt
Nationality
Egyptian/British
Education
Cairo University
Known for
•Heart and heart–lung transplants
•Establishing the heart transplantation centre
at Harefield Hospital
•Arterial switch operation in transposition of the
great arteries
•Ross-Yacoub procedure
Medical career
Early life and education
Magdi Habib Yacoub was born on the 16th of November in
1935[1] in Bilbeis, El Sharqia, Egypt to Coptic Christian family,[2][3] and
spent his childhood moving around a number of different small
towns.[4] His father was a surgeon, who later worked in public health.
He died in 1958.[4] Yacoub later recalled that both his father and the
death of his youngest aunt at age 22 years from an uncorrected mitral
stenosis during childbirth[5] inspired him to study medicine and
cardiology, saying that “this young woman would not have died if we

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had had access to
facilities which were
then available in a few
centres around the
world”.[6][7]
At the age of 15, he
entered the University
of Cairo College of
Medicine with
a scholarship.[4]

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In 1957, Yacoub graduated in
medicine from Cairo University and
completed two years
of residencies in surgery.[4] In
1961[8] or 1962[6] he moved to Britain
to study for his fellowship while
working under Sir Russell Brock,
consultant surgeon at Guy's
Hospital.[6]

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Born
Naguib Mahfouz Abdul Aziz Ibrahim Ahmed
Pasha
11 December 1911
Gamalya, Cairo, Egypt
Died
30 August 2006 (aged 94)
Agouza, Giza Governorate, Egypt

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EDIT
Mahfouz was born in a lower middle-class Muslim Egyptian family in Old Cairo in
1911. He was the seventh and the youngest child, with four brothers and two sisters,
all of them much older than him. (Experientially, he grew up an "only child.") The
family lived in two popular districts of Cairo: first, in the Bayt al-Qadi neighborhood in
the Gamaleya quarter in the old city, from where they moved in 1924 to Abbaseya,
then a new Cairo suburb north of the old city, locations that would provide the
backdrop for many of Mahfouz's later writings. His father, Abdel-Aziz Ibrahim, whom
Mahfouz described as having been "old-fashioned", was a civil servant, and Mahfouz
eventually followed in his footsteps in 1934. Mahfouz's mother, Fatimah, was the
daughter of Mustafa Qasheesha, an Al-Azhar sheikh, and although illiterate herself,
took the boy Mahfouz on numerous excursions to cultural locations such as
the Egyptian Museum and the Pyramids.[2]

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After receiving his bachelor's degree in
Philosophy from Cairo University in 1934,
Mahfouz joined the Egyptian civil service, where
he continued to work in various positions and
ministries until retirement in 1971. He served first
as a clerk at Cairo University, then, in 1938, in
the Ministry of Islamic Endowments (Awqaf) as
parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Islamic
Endowments. In 1945, he requested a transfer to
the al-Ghuri Mausoleum library, where he
interviewed residents of his childhood
neighborhood as part of the "Good Loans
Project."[4] In the 1950s, he worked as Director of
Censorship in the Bureau of Arts, as Director of
the Foundation for the Support of the Cinema, and
finally as a consultant to the Ministry of Culture.[5]

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Mahfouz published 34 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens
of movie scripts and five plays over a 70-year career.
Possibly his most famous work, The Cairo Trilogy, depicts the
lives of three generations of different families in Cairo
from World War I until after the 1952 military coup that
overthrew King Farouk. He was a board member of the
publisher Dar el-Ma'aref. Many of his novels were serialized
in Al-Ahram, and his writings also appeared in his weekly
column, "Point of View". Before the Nobel Prize only a few of
his novels had appeared in the West.[6]