Riad Abdel-Magid Higazy (September 13, 1919,

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–March 7, 1967,

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) was a leading Egyptian earth scientist and geologist. He also headed a number of national research agencies including as director of the Egyptian Geological Survey (1956 — 59), president of the managing councils of the Egyptian General Agency for Mining (1961 — 65), and the Egyptian General Agency for Geological Research and Mining (1965 — 67), and was briefly Deputy Minister of Industry for Mineral Wealth Affairs (1959 — 61). The

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Dorsum Higazy on the Moon is named after him.

Academia and research

Higazy attended

Cairo University Cairo University ( ar, جامعة القاهرة, Jāmi‘a al-Qāhira), also known as the Egyptian University from 1908 to 1940, and King Fuad I University and Fu'ād al-Awwal University from 1940 to 1952, is Egypt's premier public university ...

, receiving his B.Sc. (with Honors) in 1939 and his M.Sc. in 1943. He received his Ph.D. in Geology fromn the

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in 1948. His Ph.D. thesis was titled ''Petrogenesis of Perthite Pegmatites in the Btoch Hills, South Dakota''. He received his D.Sc. in Geology from the

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in 1952. His dissertation was entitled ''Geo-chemical Contribulions to Problems of Petrogenes''.

Select publications

1949
Petrogenesis of Perthite Pegmatites in the Black Hills, South Dakota.
The Journal of Geology 1952
Behaviour of the trace elements in a front of metasomatic-metamorphism in the Dalradian of Co. Donegal.
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 1954
TRACE ELEMENTS OF VOLCANIC ULTRABASIC POTASSIC ROCKS OF SOUTHWESTERN UGANDA AND ADJOINING PART OF THE BELGIAN CONGO.
GSA Bulletin.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Higazy, Riad A. 1819 births 1867 deaths Egyptian geologists 20th-century geologists