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Sameera Moussa
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Key facts
- Born
- Sameera Moussa Ali , ( 1917-03-03 ) March 3, 1917, Zifta , Gharbia , Sultanate of Egypt
- Died
- August 15, 1952 (1952-08-15) (aged 35), Wyoming , United States
- Resting place
- Cairo , Egypt
- Other name
- Mother of Atomic Energy
- Alma mater
- Cairo University
- Known for
- Atoms for Peace
- Awards
- Order of Sciences and Arts
- Fields
- Nuclear Physics
- Institutions
- Cairo University
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Samira
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Egypt
- Place of death
- Sheridan
- Occupation
- medical physicist
- Educated at
- Cairo University
- Employer
- Cairo University
- Languages spoken
- Arabic
- Native language
- Arabic
- Student of
- Ali Moustafa Mosharafa
- Field of work
- medical physics
- Image
- SameeraMoussa.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1917-03-03
- date of death
- 1952-08-05
- Commons category
- Sameera Moussa
- cause of death
- single-vehicle accident
- interested in
- X-ray
- transliteration or transcription
- Samīra Mūsā
- name in native language
- سميرة موسى
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Encyclopedic overview
Sameera Moussa or Samira Musa Ali (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. She organized the Atomic Energy for Peace Conference and sponsored a call that set an international conference under the banner "Atoms for Peace." She was the first woman to work at Cairo University.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sameera Moussa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.