Mostafa El-Sayed
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Mostafa A. El-Sayed is an Egyptian-American chemical physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is also known for the photochemistry rules named after him (El-Sayed rules).
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. He is currently the Julius Brown Chair and Regents Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He heads the Laser Dynamics Lab there.
El-Sayed and his group has contributed to many areas of physical and materials chemistry research. They have been involved in the development of new techniques such as magnetophoto selection, picosecond Raman spectroscopy and phosphorescence microwave double resonance spectroscopy. Professor El-Sayed has over 500 publications in refereed journals in the areas of spectroscopy and molecular dynamics. His research interests include the use of steady-state and ultrafast laser spectroscopy to understand relaxation, transport and conversion of energy in molecules, in solids, in photosynthetic systems and nanomaterials, the study of the absorption and scattering properties of plasmonic nanoparticles and their applications in nanocatalysis and nanomedicine. He has supervised the research of over 70 Ph.D. students, 35 postdoctoral fellows and 20 visiting professors.
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. He has been the recipient of the 1990 King Faisal International Prize ("Arabian Nobel Prize") in Sciences, an honorary doctorate of philosophy from the Hebrew University and several other awards including some from the different ACS local sections. He was a Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar at the California Institute of Technology and an Alexander von Humboldt Senior U.S. Scientist Awardee. He served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Physical Chemistry from 1980-2004 and has also served as the U.S. editor of the International Reviews in Physical Chemistry. He is 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.
[edit] External links
- Faculty web page at Georgia Tech
- Laser Dynamics Lab at Georgia Tech
