Shoukry Hassan Sayed is an Egyptian professor of Applied Mathematics at the Department of Mathematics, College of Science

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. He was the former Head of Mathematics Department,

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. He is a fellow of the Institute of Physics (London) and an elected member of

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Early life and education

Shoukry Hassan Sayed was born on 16 December 1945 in

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. He obtained his B. Sc, special degree in Mathematics from

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, Cairo in 1967. He moved to

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to obtain his PhD from

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in 1976 and earned his D.Sc in 1993 from the same institution.

Career

Shoukry Hassan Sayed started his career immediately after his first degree in 1967 as a mathematics demonstrator at the Department of Mathematics,

. After his PhD in

in 1976, he became a research assistant at his Alma mater, Mathematics Department,

. In 1977, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Physics Department,

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, Hamilton. In 1978, he became a lecturer at

and he became an Associate Professor when he was in

for Sabbatical leave in 1985. In the same year, he was made the Head of Mathematics Department of King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. In 1992, he became a full Professor of Mathematics.

Awards and memberships

In 1981, he received the

State Award in Physics. A year later (1982), he was awarded First Class Egypt Medal of Sciences and Arts. In the same year, he received the best Research Prize in Mathematics from

. In 1987, he received Egypt State Award in mathematics and In 1996, he was awarded the Egyptian First Class Order of Merit and Pendant of Excellence – Class 1 by ASRT. In 2004, he was elected as a member of

and he is also a Fellow of

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References

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