Riad Higazy

Riad Abdel-Magid Higazy (September 13, 1919, Tanta –March 7, 1967, Cairo, Egypt) was a leading Egyptian earth scientist and geologist. He also headed a number of national research agencies including as director of the Egyptian Geological Survey (1956 — 59), president of the managing councils of the Egyptian General Agency for Mining (1961 — 65), and 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 ridge Dorsum Higazy on the Moon is named after him.[2]

Riad Higazy
Born1919 (1919)
Tanta, Egypt
Died1967 (aged 47–48)
Cairo, Egypt
Alma materCairo University, University of Chicago, and Edinburgh University
Known forDirector of the Egyptian Geological Survey
Scientific career
FieldsGeologist

Academia and research

Higazy received his B.Sc. (with Honors) and M.Sc. in 1939 and 1943 respectively at Cairo University, then under the auspices of the Advisory Mission Committee of the Egyptian Government, he attended the University of Chicago from January 1946 until he received a Ph.D. in Geology on June 18, 1948.[1] His Ph.D. thesis, Petrogenesis of Perthite Pegmatites in the Btoch Hills, South Dakota is a work of distinction.[1]

In the spring of 1950 Higazy joined the Department of Geology of the University of Edinburgh where he was awarded a D.Sc. in Geology on December 19 , 1952, with a dissertation entitled Geo-chemical Contribulions to Problems of Petrogenes. Under the supervision of Prof. Tom F. W. Barth, Higazy unraveled the role of metasomatic replacement in the formation of pegmatites near Glendale, Pennington County, South Dakota. His hypothesis of the metasomatic origin of the Perthites is supported by field observations of outcrops and several mine cuts, by microscopic studies of the perthite textures and those of the enclosing rocks, and by extensive chemical analyses.[1]

Select publications

1949. Petrogenesis of Perthite Pegmatites in the Black Hills, South Dakota. The Journal of Geology

1952. Behaviour of the trace elements in a front of metasomatic-metamorphism in the Dalradian of Co. Donegal. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

1954. TRACE ELEMENTS OF VOLCANIC ULTRABASIC POTASSIC ROCKS OF SOUTHWESTERN UGANDA AND ADJOINING PART OF THE BELGIAN CONGO. GSA Bulletin.

References
  1. El-Baz, Farouk; Gheith, Mohamed A. (March–April 1970). "MEMORIAL OF RIAD ABDEL-MEGID HIGAZY" (PDF). The American Mineralogist. 55.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date format (link)
  2. "Riad Higazy". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program.
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