Professor Attia Ashour | |
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عطية عبد السلام عاشور | |
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Born | 13 September 1924 |
Died | 17 April 2017 | (aged 92)
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Scientific career | |
Thesis | The Reduction of Electric Currents in Non-uniform Thin Plane Sheets and Spherical Shells, Having Special Distributions of Conductivity with Application of Geomagnetism |
Attia Abdel Salam Ashour (Arabic: عطية عبد السلام عاشور, 13 September 1924 – 17 April 2017) was an Egyptian emeritus professor of applied mathematics at Cairo University. He was a former president of the Arab Union of Mathematical and Physics. A former director of Advanced Schools on the Physics of the Earth. He was an elected member of World Academy of Sciences, a founding member of the African Academy of Sciences, and a chevalier in the French Ordre national du Mérite.[1][2][3]