Chemistry Professor, Mostafa El-Sayed, has won the 2007 Medal of Science, the nations highest honor in the field and will be obtaining the medal from President George W. Bush at a White House ceremony on 29 September 2008.

Prof. El-Sayed, Julius Brown Chair, Regent Professor, and Director, Laser Dynamic Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, was born in Egypt where he received his B.Sc. He received his Ph.D.at Florida State University with Professor Michael Kasha. After doing postdoctoral work at Yale, Harvard and Caltech, he joined the faculty at UCLA. In 1994, he moved to Georgia Tech and became the Julius Brown Chair, Regent Professor and Director of the Laser Dynamic Lab.

It is worth mentioning that Prof. Mostafa El-Sayed was at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina on 2 September 2007 giving a two-day workshop, as well as a lecture, that both provided an introduction of Nano-Science and Nano-Technology.

The workshop intended, not only to assist researchers in discovering the status of Nano-Science, but to additionally initiate active research in this area.

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