Riad Abdel-Magid Higazy (September 13, 1919, Tanta – March 7, 1967, Cairo, Egypt) was a leading Egyptian earth scientist and geologist. He headed a number of national research agencies including director of the Egyptian Geological Survey (1956—59), president of the managing councils of the Egyptian General Agency for Mining (1961—65), the Egyptian General Agency for Geological Research and Mining (1965—67), and was briefly Deputy Minister of Industry for Mineral Wealth Affairs (1959—61).[1] The wrinkle ridgeDorsum Higazy on the Moon is named after him.[2]
Academia and research
Higazy attended Cairo University, receiving his B.Sc. (with Honors) in 1939 and his M.Sc. in 1943. He received his Ph.D. in Geology fromn the University of Chicago in 1948.[1] His Ph.D. thesis was titled Petrogenesis of Perthite Pegmatites in the Btoch Hills, South Dakota.[1] He received his D.Sc. in Geology from the University of Edinburgh in 1952. His dissertation was entitled Geo-chemical Contribulions to Problems of Petrogenes.[1]
