Riad Higazy

Riad Abdel-Magid Higazy was a leading Egyptian earth scientist and geologist. He headed a number of national research agencies including director of the Egyptian Geological Survey, president of the managing councils of the Egyptian General Agency for Mining, the Egyptian General Agency for Geological Research and Mining, and was briefly Deputy Minister of Industry for Mineral Wealth Affairs. The wrinkle ridge Dorsum Higazy on the Moon is named after him.

Academia and research

Higazy attended Cairo University, receiving his B.Sc. in 1939 and his M.Sc. in 1943. He received his Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Chicago in 1948. His Ph.D. thesis was titled Petrogenesis of Perthite Pegmatites in the Btoch Hills, South Dakota. 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.

Select publications

1949. The Journal of Geology
1952. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.
1954. GSA Bulletin.