Mostafa A El-Sayed is an Egyptian-American physical chemist, a leading nanoscience researcher, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a US National Medal of Science laureate.
13 Facts About Mostafa El-Sayed
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Mostafa El-Sayed was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Physical Chemistry during a critical period of growth.
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Mostafa El-Sayed is known for the spectroscopy rule named after him, the El-Sayed rule.
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Mostafa El-Sayed spent time as a post-doctoral researcher at Harvard University, Yale University and the California Institute of Technology before joining the faculty of the University of California at Los Angeles in 1961.
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Mostafa El-Sayed spent over thirty years of his career at UCLA, while he and his wife raised five children.
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Mostafa El-Sayed led the Laser Dynamics Lab there until his full retirement in 2020.
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Mostafa El-Sayed is a former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Physical Chemistry.
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The Mostafa El-Sayed group has been involved in the development of new techniques such as magnetophotonic selection, picosecond Raman spectroscopy and phosphorescence microwave double resonance spectroscopy.
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Mostafa El-Sayed's lab is known for the development of the gold nanorod technology.
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Mostafa El-Sayed has been the recipient of the 1990 King Faisal International Prize in Sciences, Georgia Tech's highest award, "The Class of 1943 Distinguished Professor", an honorary doctorate of philosophy from the Hebrew University, and several other awards including some from the different American Chemical Society local sections.
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Mostafa El-Sayed was a Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar at the California Institute of Technology and an Alexander von Humboldt Senior US Scientist Awardee.
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Mostafa El-Sayed is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Third World Academy of Science.
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Professor Mostafa El-Sayed received the 2016 Priestley Medal, the American Chemical Society's highest honor, for his decades-long contributions to chemistry.