Mostafa El-Sayed
Mostafa El -Sayed, even Mustapha El- Sayyed, ( born May 8, 1933 Zifta, Egypt ) is an Egyptian- American chemist, known for his contributions to nanotechnology, molecular spectroscopy and laser spectroscopy.
El -Sayed graduated from Ain Shams University in Cairo (Bachelor 1953) and received his doctorate from Florida State University with Michael Kasha. After that, he was a post - doctoral student at Yale University (1958 /59), Harvard University (1959 /60) and Caltech (1960 /61), before he joined the faculty in 1961 and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA), has been in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. He is since 1994 Julius Brown and since 2000 also Regents Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and director of the Laser Dynamics Laboratory. In 1968 he was a visiting professor at the American University in Beirut in 1976 and 1991 at the University of Paris.
El -Sayed examined different systems of molecules, photosynthetic systems, solids up to metallic nanostructures and semiconductor quantum dots using methods of laser spectroscopy, with its working groups time resolutions used up in the femtosecond range and new methods developed (such as Phosphorescence Microwave Multi Resonance Spectroscopy). In addition to chemical ( Nanocatalysis ), solid-state physics ( such as surface plasmon generation ) and optical ( nanophotonics ) applications he and his team are also applications in medicine ( nanomedicine, cancer diagnosis and Photo Thermal therapy with gold nanoparticles). He also collaborates with his son Ivan El -Sayed, who is Professor of Cancer Surgery in California.
El -Sayed has published over 500 scientific articles as an author and co-author and supervised more than 70 doctoral students.
The El -Sayed rule in molecular spectroscopy ( in radiationless transitions from singlet to triplet spin states that have higher probability to El -Sayed, if the molecular orbitals are different in the new state) is named after him, he turned in the late 1960s on.
1965 to 1971 he was a Sloan Fellow and 1967/68 Guggenheim Fellow. In 1990 he received the King Faisal Prize in Chemistry. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( 1986), the Third World Academy of Sciences (1984) and the National Academy of Sciences (1980 ). He became an honorary doctorate from the Hebrew University in 1993. In 2009 he received the Glenn T. Seaborg Medal and the Ahmed Zewail prize, in 1967 and 2002, the Fresenius price Langmuir price. In 2007 he received the National Medal of Science. In 1982, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Senior Fellow at the Technical University Munich. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society ( 2000).
From 1980 he was editor of the Journal of Chemical Physics.
He is married since 1957 with Janis Jones, with whom he has three sons and two daughters.