The following is a list of Egyptian Nobel laureates and nominees:
Laureates Year Image Laureate Born Died Field Citation1964Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin[دوروثي هودجكين]12 May 1910 Cairo, Egypt29 July 1994 Ilmington, Warwickshire, United KingdomChemistry"for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances."The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1964 nobelprize.org1978Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat [محمد أنور السادات]25 December 1918 Mit Abu El Kom, Monufia, Egypt6 October 1981 Cairo, EgyptPeace"for jointly having negotiated peace between Egypt and Israel in 1978."The Nobel Peace Prize 1978 nobelprize.org(awarded together Israeli politician Menachem Begin)1988Naguib Mahfouz [نجيب محفوظ]11 December 1911 Cairo, Egypt30 August 2006 Agouza, Giza, EgyptLiterature"who, through works rich in nuance – now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous – has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind."The Nobel Prize in Literature 1988 nobelprize.org1994Yasser Arafat [ياسر عرفات]24 August 1929 Cario, Egypt11 November 2004Peace"for having opted for the olive branch by signing the so-called Oslo Accords in Washington"1999Ahmed Hassan Zewail [أحمد حسن زويل]26 February 1946 Damanhour, Beheira, Egypt2 August 2016 Pasadena, California, United StatesChemistry"for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy."The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1999 nobelprize.org2005Mohamed Mustafa ElBaradei [محمد مصطفى البرادعي]17 June 1942 Cairo, EgyptPeace"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."The Nobel Peace Prize 2005 nobelprize.org(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,Nomination and selection of Nobel Peace Prize laureates nobelprize.org among them Nawal El Saadawi [نوال السعداوي] (for Literature), Sonallah Ibrahim [ صنع الله إبراهيم] (for Literature), Alaa Al Aswany [علاء الأسواني] (for Literature), Ahdaf Soueif [ميرال الطحاوي] (for Literature), Yusuf Idris [يوسف إدريس] (for Literature), Miral al-Tahawy [ميرال الطحاوي] (for Literature), Gamal al-Ghitani [جمال الغيطانى] (for Literature), Maikel Nabil Sanad [مايكل نبيل سند] (for Peace), Wael Ghonim [وائل غنيم] (for Peace), Israa Abdel Fattah [إسراء عبد الفتاح] (for Peace), Sister Emmanuelle Cinquin NDS (for Peace), and Abdel Fattah el-Sisi [عبد الفتاح السیسی] (for Peace).
Image Laureate Born Died Years Nominated Citation Nominator(s) ChemistryDorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin12 May 1910 Cairo, Egypt29 July 1994 Ilmington, Warwickshire, United Kingdom1950, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964"for her pioneering discoveries of the structures of penicillin, vitamin B12, and insulin."Nomination archive – Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin nobelprize.orgJoseph Donnay (1902–1994), Robert Robinson (1886–1975), et al.Ahmed Riad Tourky16 March 1902 Tanta, Gharbia, Egypt17 January 1971 Cairo, Egypt1967"for his works which dealt with metal corrosion and the development and application of electrochemical methods of research.Nomination archive – A R Tourky nobelprize.orgAbdel Aziz Ali Mousa (1915-1979) LiteraturePercival George Elgood*3 July 1863 Marlborough, Wiltshire, United Kingdom20 December 1941 Cairo, Egypt1932Nomination archive – Percival G Elgood nobelprize.orgArthur James Grant (1862–1948)Asis Domet*25 June 1890 Cairo, Egypt27 June 1943 Berlin, Germany1936Nomination archive – Asis Domet nobelprize.orgG. E. Khuri (?)Taha Hussein [طه حسين] 15 November 1889 Maghagha, Minya, Egypt28 October 1973 Cairo, Egypt1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969Nomination archive – Taha Hussein nobelprize.orgAhmed Lutfi el-Sayed (1872–1963) et al.Giuseppe Ungaretti*8 February 1888 Cape Town, South Africa2 June 1970 Milan, Italy1955, 1956, 1958, 1964, 1965, 1969, 1970Nomination archive – Giuseppe Ungaretti nobelprize.orgThomas Stearns Eliot (1888–1965), et al.Tawfiq al-Hakim [توفيق الحكيم]9 October 1898 Alexandria, Egypt26 July 1987 Cairo, Egypt1969Nomination archive – Tawfik al-Hakim nobelprize.orgShawqi Daif (1910–2005)Georges Schéhadé*2 November 1905 Alexandria, Egypt17 January 1989 Paris, France1971Nomination archive – Georges Schehadé nobelprize.orgCamille Aboussouan (1919–2013) PeaceMohammad Reza Pahlavi26 October 1919 Tehran, Iran27 July 1980 Cairo, Egypt1964, 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."Nomination archive – Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi nobelprize.orgNada Thadet [ندى ثابت] (included in the 1000 PeaceWomen)began on 2003 in Bern, Switzerland2005"in recognition of women’s efforts and visibility in promoting peace all over the world."PeaceWomen Across the Globe , www.1000peacewomen.org, retrieved 22 July 2022.Maggie Gobran [ماجي جبران]1949 Cairo, Egypt2012, 2020"in recognition of her constant commitment and dedication to serving illiterate and poor women throughout Egypt."Coptic Orthodox Churchoriginated in 42 A.D. in Alexandria, Egypt2018"for their refusal to retaliate against deadly and ongoing persecution from governments and terrorist groups in Egypt and elsewhere."
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