List of Egyptian Nobel laureates and nominees
Egyptian Nobel laureates and nominees
The following is a list of Egyptian Nobel laureates and nominees:
Laureates
Year
Image
Laureate
Born
Died
Field
Citation
1964
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin [a]
12 May 1910 Cairo , Egypt
29 July 1994 Ilmington , Warwickshire , United Kingdom
Chemistry
"for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances."[1]
1978
Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat [محمد أنور السادات]
25 December 1918 Mit Abu El Kom , Monufia , Egypt
6 October 1981 Cairo , Egypt
Peace
"for jointly having negotiated peace between Egypt and Israel in 1978 ."[2] (awarded together Israeli politician Menachem Begin )
1988
Naguib Mahfouz [نجيب محفوظ]
11 December 1911 Cairo , Egypt
30 August 2006 Agouza , Giza , Egypt
Literature
"who, through works rich in nuance – now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous – has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind."[3]
1994
Yasser Arafat [ياسر عرفات]
4/24 August 1929 Cairo , Egypt
11 November 2004 Clamart , Hauts-de-Seine, France
Peace
"for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East."[4] (awarded together with Israeli politicians Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres )
1999
Ahmed Hassan Zewail [أحمد حسن زويل]
26 February 1946 Damanhour , Beheira , Egypt
2 August 2016 Pasadena, California , United States
Chemistry
"for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy ."[5]
2005
Mohamed Mustafa ElBaradei [محمد مصطفى البرادعي]
17 June 1942 Cairo , Egypt
Peace
"for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way."[6] (awarded together with the international organization International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) )
Nominees
The following list are the nominees with verified nominations from the Nobel Committee and recognized international organizations. There are also other purported nominees whose nominations are yet to be verified since the archives are revealed 50 years after,[7] among them Nawal El Saadawi [8] [9] [نوال السعداوي] (for Literature), Sonallah Ibrahim [10] [ صنع الله إبراهيم] (for Literature), Alaa Al Aswany [علاء الأسواني] (for Literature), Ahdaf Soueif [ميرال الطحاوي] (for Literature), Yusuf Idris [11] [يوسف إدريس] (for Literature), Miral al-Tahawy [ميرال الطحاوي] (for Literature), Gamal al-Ghitani [جمال الغيطانى] (for Literature), Maikel Nabil Sanad [12] [مايكل نبيل سند] (for Peace), Wael Ghonim [13] [14] [وائل غنيم] (for Peace), Israa Abdel Fattah [14] [إسراء عبد الفتاح] (for Peace), Sister Emmanuelle Cinquin NDS (for Peace), and Abdel Fattah el-Sisi [15] [16] [عبد الفتاح السیسی] (for Peace).
Image
Laureate
Born
Died
Years Nominated
Citation
Nominator(s)
Chemistry [b]
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
12 May 1910 Cairo , Egypt
29 July 1994 Ilmington , Warwickshire , United Kingdom
1950, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964
"for her pioneering discoveries of the structures of penicillin , vitamin B12 , and insulin ."[17]
Joseph Donnay (1902–1994), Robert Robinson (1886–1975), et al.[c]
Ahmed Riad Tourky
16 March 1902 Tanta , Gharbia , Egypt
17 January 1971 Cairo , Egypt
1967
"for his works which dealt with metal corrosion and the development and application of electrochemical methods of research.[18]
Abdel Aziz Ali Mousa (1915-1979)
Literature
Percival George Elgood*
3 July 1863 Marlborough, Wiltshire , United Kingdom
20 December 1941 Cairo , Egypt
1932
[19]
Arthur James Grant (1862–1948)
Asis Domet*
25 June 1890 Cairo , Egypt
27 June 1943 Berlin , Germany
1936
[20]
G. E. Khuri (?)
Taha Hussein [طه حسين]
15 November 1889 Maghagha , Minya , Egypt
28 October 1973 Cairo , Egypt
1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969
[21]
Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed (1872–1963) et al.[d]
Giuseppe Ungaretti *
8 February 1888 Alexandria , Egypt
2 June 1970 Milan , Italy
1955, 1956, 1958, 1964, 1965, 1969, 1970
[22]
Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888–1965), et al.[e]
Tawfiq al-Hakim [توفيق الحكيم]
9 October 1898 Alexandria , Egypt
26 July 1987 Cairo , Egypt
1969
[23]
Shawqi Daif (1910–2005)
Georges Schéhadé *
2 November 1905 Alexandria , Egypt
17 January 1989 Paris , France
1971
[24]
Camille Aboussouan (1919–2013)
Peace
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi [f]
26 October 1919 Tehran , Iran
27 July 1980 Cairo , Egypt
1964, 1967
"for introducing important social reforms in Iran that helped secure peace in the Middle East, and negotiating in a conflict between Pakistan and Afghanistan from 1961 to 1963."[25]
Nada Thadet [ندى ثابت] (included in the 1000 PeaceWomen )
began on 2003 in Bern , Switzerland
2005
"in recognition of women’s efforts and visibility in promoting peace all over the world."[26]
Maggie Gobran [ماجي جبران]
1949 Cairo , Egypt
2012 , 2020
"in recognition of her constant commitment and dedication to serving illiterate and poor women throughout Egypt."[27] [28] [29]
Coptic Orthodox Church
originated in 42 A.D. in Alexandria , Egypt
2018
"for their refusal to retaliate against deadly and ongoing persecution from governments and terrorist groups in Egypt and elsewhere."[30] [31]
Coptic Orphans
Notes
^ Hodgkin was born in the English expatriate community in Egypt up until she was 11 years old.
^ The asterisk (*) denotes nominees who were in Egypt with foreign origin.
^ William Lipscomb (1919–2011), Robert Livingston (?), William Wardlaw (?), Leopold Ružička (1887–1976), Otto Bastiansen (1918–1995), Johannes Martin Bijvoet (1892–1980), Carl Martius (1906–1993), Richard L. Synge (1914–1994), Lawrence Bragg (1890–1971), Arne Westgren (1889–1975), Max Perutz (1914–2002), John Kendrew (1917–1997), Linus Pauling (1901–1994), Einar Stenhagen (1911–1973), and Harry Lundin (1896–1973).
^ Bernard Guyon (1904–1975), members of the Academy of the Arabic Language , Karl Vilhelm Zetterstéen (1866–1953), Olle Hedberg (1899–1974), Henrik Samuel Nyberg (1889–1974), Muhammad Ahmad Khalafallah (1916–1991), Charles Pellat (1914–1992), César Dubler (1915–1966), Régis Blachère (1900–1973), Jussi Taneli Aro (1928–1983), faculty of University of Jordan , professors of Kuwait University , William Montgomery Watt (1909–2006), Sheikh Mustafa Al-Amin (1889–1988), and Abdel Hamid Gouda al-Sahhar (1913–1974).
^ Robert Vivier (1894–1989), Giuseppe De Robertis (1888–1963), Marcel Raymond (1897–1981), Howard Rosario Marraro (1897–1972), Georges Poulet (1902–1991), Otis Fellows (1908–1993), Domenico De Robertis (1921–2011), Lanfranco Caretti (1915–1995), Giacomo Devoto (1897–1974), several professors from the University of Florence , Marcello Gigante (1923–2001), Marco Scovazzi (1923–1971), Carlo Bo (1911–2001), Egon Huber (1907–1986), and Maria Bellonci (1902–1986)
^ The Shah Mohammad Reza died in exile in Egypt, where he had been granted asylum by President Anwar Sadat .
References
Prizes Laureates
Nominees
Organisations Related 1 Nobel Memorial Prize (not one of the original Nobel Prizes).