Mostafa El-Sayed
Mostafa El-Sayed | |
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El-Sayed in March 2016 | |
| Born | 8 May 1933 |
| Nationality | Egyptian |
| Alma mater | Ain Shams University Florida State University |
| Known for | Nanotechnology Spectroscopy El-Sayed rule |
| Awards | King Faisal International Prize 1990 Irving Langmuir Award 2002 National Medal of Science 2007 Glenn T. Seaborg Medal 2009 Priestley Medal 2016 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Chemical physicist |
| Institutions | Georgia Institute of Technology Harvard University University of California at Los Angeles |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael Kasha |
Mostafa A. El-Sayed (Arabic: مصطفى السيد) is an Egyptian-American physical chemist, nanoscience researcher, member of the National Academy of Sciences and US National Medal of Science laureate. He is known for the spectroscopy rule named after him, the El-Sayed rule.