Ali Moustafa Mosharafa - Honors

Honors

  • He was given the title "Pasha" by King Farouq, but he declined the title claiming that no title is worthier than a sciences PhD.
  • A laboratory and an auditorium are named after him in the Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Egypt.
  • An annual reward carrying his name has been initiated by his family to be given to the cleverest student in mathematics.
  • Egypt & Europe Magazine published a cartoon of him standing between Russia and the USA holding in his hands rolled paper, and both superpowers awaiting him to unfold the secrets of science.
  • When the Advanced Sciences Institute in the USA in 1947, Mosharafa was invited as a visiting professor at Princeton University, but the king disapproved.

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