Sameera Moussa

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Sameera Moussa was born in 1917 in Gharbia governorate in Egypt. Her mother has been fighting cancer for a long time, and after her mother's death, Sameera's father moved to Cairo with his daughter, Sameera, where she joined Kaser El Shok primary school. After Sameera had finished the primary education, she joined Banat El Ashraf school, which was managed by the famous feminist, Nabwya Moussa.

In spite of her high grades in the secondary education, Sameera preferred to join the faculty of science at Cairo University more than engineering. She got a bachelor's degree in 1939 in radiology with first class. Sameera got honors after this for her research about the effects of x-rays. Samira Moussa was the student of the renowned scientist Mostafa Moshrafa who believed in his student enough to help her become a remarkable lecturer at the faculty, and after that she became the first assistant professor and the first woman to obtain a PHD and hold a university post.

Sameera Moussa said "I will make nuclear treatment as available and as cheap as aspirin'' because she believed in "Atoms for Peace'' and she worked hard for this, and organized an international conference under the banner "Atoms for Peace". She also provided her help for the treatment of cancer patients. Sameera Mousa got a scholarship from the Fulbright Atomic Program at California University. She was given permission for visiting the secret US atomic facilities. She refused many offers to live in the United States and granted American citizenship by saying, "Egypt, my dear homeland is waiting for me".

On August 5, 1952, she was invited on a trip. On her way her car fell from a height of 40 feet and she died but the car driver jumped from the car just before it fell down, and some people believed that it was planned.