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Moroccan geniuses. Moroccan scientists have occupied the throne of astronomy, physics, medicine, and others, and their research and career achievements have amazed the entire world.

 

Moroccan geniuses

Moroccan geniuses

They are a group of scientists who dazzled the world with their scientific projects and were able to present scientific achievements, discoveries, research, and lectures that had a great impact on the global level, in addition to their field excellence at the level of the jobs they held.

 

Rashid Al Yazmi:

Inventor of the lithium battery

 

Scientist in physics. Born in Fez, he spent ten years studying for his graduate degree in France. He was employed by the Institute of Scientific Research and held a doctorate. He first relocated from France to Japan, where he lived for five years. He subsequently moved to the United States, specifically to California, where he spent ten years working at the NASA Institute. prior to starting work at the National Energy Institute in Singapore.

 

Al-Yazmi is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the American "National Academy of Engineers" award. Of his numerous patents, the "lithium" battery, which is used in computers and phones, is regarded as his most significant and well-known invention.

 

Kawthar Hafidi:

The first woman to hold the position of Director of the Department of Nuclear Physics

 

Kawtar Hafidi, born in 1973, is a research physicist and director of the Physics Department at Argonne National Laboratory since 2017, the scientific center of the US Department of Energy.

 

Hafidi was appointed due to her having 17 years of research experience in America and Europe and authoring more than 140 publications. She also presented dozens of interventions and lectures at international events hosted by several universities and laboratories.

 

Hafidi has led several large scientific projects in the laboratory, which conducts scientific research in many disciplines.

 

Kamal Al-Wadghiri:

Member of NASA

 

Communications engineer and space scientist at NASA. He continued his studies in the United States of America.

 

Al-Wadghiri supervised a number of successful operations at the agency, including the landing of the “Spirit” and “Opportunity” rover on the surface of Mars. He was also part of the scientific team, which supervised about five years ago the landing of the robotic rover “Curiosity” on the surface of Mars. His mission at that time was to follow the signals issued by the mechanism as it descended.

 

Rajaa Al-Sharqawi:

Discoverer and researcher in nuclear physics

 

​Researcher in the field of nuclear physics. She was selected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to receive the L'Oréal Science Prize for her "valuable contribution to one of the major discoveries in the field of physics related to proving the existence of the 'Higgs Boson' particle responsible for creating mass in the universe." The organization's statement issued on the occasion says:

 

Professor of high energy and nuclear physics at Mohammed V University “Agdal” in Rabat, she was chosen by the United Nations from the African continent and the Arab countries to be one of five distinguished women honored in 2015 for her discovery. A statement from the organization described her as a “research activist,” because she devotes a significant amount of her time to developing the level of scientific research in Morocco.

 

Adnan Al-Rimmal:

The first African scientist to receive the European Inventor Award

 

He was born in Fez in 1962. He obtained a doctorate in molecular pharmacology from the University of Paris in 1987, and a state doctorate in bacteriology in 1994 from the University of Fez, before being appointed a research professor at the University of Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdullah in Fez, and working on establishing a biotechnology laboratory.

 

The professor of biology was nominated to win the European Innovator Award, supervised by the European Patent Office, for developing a new method to improve the effectiveness of antibiotics. He succeeded in inventing a drug using natural oils that works to combat antibiotic-resistant microbes, an innovation that comes as a culmination of many years of research.

 

Maryam Chedid:

The first Arab astronomer to set foot in Antarctica

 

Born in 1969 AD in Casablanca, she is a Moroccan researcher and astronomer at the French National Observatory of Côte d'Azur. She works as a professor at the French University of Nice. She obtained a doctorate in astronomy. She was part of a scientific team tasked with developing a space telescope aimed at measuring the radiation of stars in Antarctica.

 

In 2005, Chedid was chosen to be part of the team working on the project to develop the future of Antarctica in 2005. Maryam Chedid is considered the first female scientist to reach the South Pole.

 

Latifa El Ouedghiri:

One of the most prominent nuclear physicists in the United States.

 

She obtained a bachelor’s degree in physics and mathematics in 1984, then a master’s degree in theoretical physics in 1986 from Mohammed V University in Rabat, and a doctorate in physics in 1991 from Blaise Pascal University in France. Then she headed to the United States to begin her research career at the University of Chicago.

 

Latifa led a research team at Thomas Jefferson Laboratory in the United States in 2018, which was the first to be able to measure how pressure is distributed inside a proton.

 

Abdul-Jabbar Al-Munira:

Member of the Scientific Committee awarding the Nobel Prizes since 2015.

 

Born in 1965 in Rabat, he obtained a degree in biology in 1988 from Mohammed V University, a diploma in in-depth studies in France, and then a doctorate in neuroscience from the University of Aix-Marseille.

He became a professor in the Nanoscience Division at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden in 1992, where he also directs the Neurobiology Laboratory.

 

He contributed his famous scientific research to discovering how neural networks in the brain transform human intentions into actions and how important this is in treating neurological diseases.

He was able to obtain the National Reward Medal, rank of Commander, in 2010, from King Mohammed VI.