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Mostafa A. El-Sayed is
an
Egyptian-American
physical chemist, Julius Brown
Chair and Regents Professor of
Chemistry at the
Georgia Institute of Technology,
and a member of the
National Academy of Sciences.
A native of Egypt, El-Sayed
earned his undergraduate degree
from the
Ain Shams University in
Cairo, and then a doctoral
degree from
Florida State University. He
spent time as a researcher at
Harvard University,
Yale University and the
California Institute of Technology
before joining the faculty of the
University of California at Los
Angeles in 1961.
For his work in the area of
applying
laser spectroscopic techniques
to study the properties and
behavior on the
nanoscale, El-Sayed was
elected to the
National Academy of Sciences
in
1980, and in
2002, he won the
Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical
Physics. El-Sayed came to
Georgia Tech in
1994; he directs the Laser
Dynamics Laboratory there. He is
also the editor-in-chief of the
Journal of Physical Chemistry
and a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, a member of the
American Physical Society, the
American Association for the
Advancement of Science and the
Third World Academy of Science.
