Mostafa El-Sayed
8 May 1933 – present
Mostafa El-Sayed (born 1933) is an Egyptian-American physical chemist known for the spectroscopic selection rule that bears his name and for later work on the optical properties of metal nanoparticles, including gold nanoparticles in cancer diagnostics and therapy. After more than three decades at UCLA he moved to the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1994, and he received the US National Medal of Science for 2007.
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Life events
Born in the town of Zifta in the Nile Delta.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCompleted his undergraduate degree in chemistry at Ain Shams University.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgLeft Egypt to pursue doctoral research in chemistry at Florida State University.
Completed his doctorate in chemistry under Michael Kasha at Florida State University.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgAfter postdoctoral work at Yale, Harvard and Caltech, he became a professor of chemistry at UCLA, where he remained for over thirty years.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgElected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his work in molecular spectroscopy.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgEdited the American Chemical Society's Journal of Physical Chemistry for more than two decades.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgAppointed Julius Brown Chair and Regents Professor at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, where he directs the Laser Dynamics Laboratory.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgNamed a recipient of the 2007 National Medal of Science, presented at the White House in 2008.
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