Egypt: Culture#
World Heritage#
- Abu Mena
- Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis
- Historic Cairo
- Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur
- Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae
- Saint Catherine Area
- Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley)
Nobel Prize Winners (6)#
Here persons are counted for the country they born in or if their affiliation is with this country.| Name | Category | Year | Motivation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat | Peace | 1978 | |
| Yasser Arafat | Peace | 1994 | "for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East" |
| Mohamed ElBaradei | Peace | 2005 | "for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way" |
| Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin | Chemistry | 1964 | "for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances" |
| Naguib Mahfouz | Literature | 1988 | "who, through works rich in nuance - now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous - has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind" |
| Ahmed H. Zewail | Chemistry | 1999 | "for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy" |