Hamed Gohar

Prof. Hamed Abdel Fattah Gohar (Arabic حامد عبد الفتاح جوهر; * 1907 in Cairo, † 1992) was an Egyptian marine scientists. He is considered a pioneer of marine research throughout the Arab world. In Egypt, he is known as "King of the Red Sea."

Life and study

Hamed Gohar was born in 1907 in Cairo. He attended the Islamic charity school, where he completed his primary and secondary studies from. He then attended the King's School where he acquired the Baccalauréat. In 1925, he attended the Faculty of Science at the Egyptian University (later Cairo University ). In 1926 he completed his studies with an honorary degree and worked in the Department of Animal Biology as a research assistant.

Research

In 1931, he submitted his first thesis on the histology of the endocrine gland in the rabbit.

In the 1930s, Hamed Gohar initiated the first extensive marine biological studies in Egypt and the Arab region. From 1931 to 1939 he conducted research on coral genus Xenia in the Red Sea. In 1934 he published a study in the British journal Nature about the " partnership between fish and sea anemones " and cooperation between the clown fish and anemones when snapping common prey. Gohar said that the viewing of this phenomenon was subsequently become a hobby of underwater photographers. Gohar was 1942, the continued existence of the Last 100 years earlier than nachgewiesenene and dugong ( sea cow, even mythical: Mermaid ) verify known marine mammals. Before Gohar had over a period of 14 years in the sand of Hurghada remains found from the skulls of dugongs, the Meeresmammalia in the Red Sea were extinct as likely. Because Gohar had this thing only devote, a journalist wrote once that " Gohar is married to a mermaid ." Gohar but said he had but " devoted entire life to the sea itself " be. He lived 25 years in the Marine Biology Station (now the National Institute of Oceanography ) in Hurghada. She was the only marine biological station on the coast of the Red Sea for 30 years. Gohar remembers exactly at the time when he was there for the first time: ". It was June 5, 1931 It overwhelmed me a permanent love to the coral reefs ," he said.

Offices

The television program " The Sea World "

Hamed Gohar has shown with weekly television program " The Marine World " over a period of 18 years from 1973 to 1992, the beautiful underwater world and the various life stages of marine animals in an exciting form. After his death, the broadcast of another marine scientists was taken short, but it was later taken out of the program and never aired again.