Rushdi Said
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Rushdi Said | |
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Born | May 12, 1920 |
Died | February 8, 2013 | (aged 92)
Nationality | Egyptian, American |
Scientific career | |
Fields | geology |
Institutions | Cairo University, Doctorate from Harvard University, Professor of Geology, Cairo University and Chairman of the Board of the Egyptian Mining and Geological Research Organization |
Rushdi Said (
He had the opportunity to be involved in politics in the 1960s and 1970s as a member of the People's Assembly and also in the International Parliamentary Union. Rushdi was unique in choosing to specialize in the subject of geological Egypt. He wrote a book on Egypt's geology which won the admiration of the world's scientists and became a recognized authority on a local level and globally. He was also an expert in irrigation. He has written books and articles on mining and agriculture and irrigation in Egypt and the region in general. His main project, to which he has devoted years of his life, is the renaissance of Egypt and the development of the Egyptian population. He served as a professor at Cairo University from 1950 until 1968, and was the manager of the Mining and Geological Research Institute in the period from 1968 - 1977.
Rushdi was honored by Egyptian President
Biography
Said was born in 1920 in Elkolali, a district of
The diversion of the Nile Valley
This is a Rushdi Said project proposing the reconstruction of the vast
Books
- Foraminifera of the northern Red Sea. 1949
- The river Nile by Rushdi Said
(Pergamon, 1993)
- The geological survey of Egypt, 1896-1971 by Rushdi Said
(Ministry of Industry, Petroleum and Mineral Wealth, Egyptian Geological Survey and Mining Authority, 1971)
- Science and politics in Egypt by Rushdi Said
(American University in Cairo Press, 2004) )
- Explanatory notes to accompany the geological map of Egypt
(Ministry of Industry, Petroleum, and Mineral Wealth, Geological Survey of Egypt and Mining Authority, 1971)
- Subsurface geology of Cairo area 1975
- The geology of Egypt.1962
(Elsevier Pub. Co.
- al- Ḥaqīqah wa-al-wahm fī al-wāqiʻ al-Miṣrī
(Dār al-Hilāl, 1996)
- The geological evolution of the River Nile
(Springer-Verlag, 1981)
- Riḥlat ʻumr
(Dār al-Hilāl, 2000)