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The Google search engine celebrated the 115th birthday of Dr. Hamed Gohar, that great scientist and pioneer in the late Egyptian marine sciences, who was born on November 15, 1907.
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Hamid Abdel Fattah Gohar was born on November 15, 1907 and died on June 17, 1992, an Egyptian oceanologist and TV presenter, born in Cairo. He presented the “Sea World” program for more than 18 years. He received his primary education at the Islamic Charitable Association School, and his secondary education at the Royal Secondary School (later Khedive Ismail), from which he obtained a baccalaureate degree in 1925 (the year the Egyptian University was established).
Jawhar first enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine, and despite his success in the preparatory year, he preferred to transfer to the Faculty of Science. Among them, he obtained a Bachelor of Science with first class honors, and was appointed as a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Animal Sciences in the college.
In the year 1931 – two years after his graduation – he submitted his first thesis to which he applied for a master’s degree, the subject of which was “Exact Anatomy and Endocrine Histology in the Rabbit”.
After that, Gohar moved to work at the marine biology station in Hurghada, and continued scientific research in the organisms of the Red Sea, until he obtained a doctorate degree in science in this branch of knowledge, and perhaps – as Dr. Abdel Halim Montaser says – the first to obtain it in Egypt.
For scientific contributions in Egypt and the Arab world
Six decades ago, Hamed Gohar began the first extensive research study of marine studies in Egypt and the Arab world.
Hamed Gohar has managed the marine biology station in Hurghada since its inception for forty years.
He established a marine museum that includes collections of animals and plants in the Red Sea. He also established a library containing most of the basic references for the study of the Red Sea.
He established the Aquarium Institute in Ataqah in Suez, and established another museum for the life of the Red Sea.
He worked as a science and technology advisor at the League of Arab States in 1970.
Member of the Arabic Language Academy in Cairo in 1973.
He participated in the Arabic scientific dictionaries issued by the Arabic Language Academy, most notably the Biology Dictionary in Biology and Agriculture, which took 8 years to prepare from 1976 AD to 1984 AD, and some of the leading Arab scientists participated in it.
his international contributions
He was an advisor to the Secretary-General of the United Nations to organize the first International Conference on the Law of the Sea in Geneva in 1958.
He was chosen by the International Atomic Energy Agency in 1959 as Chairman of the Committee for the Disposal of Nuclear Waste in the Deep Sea.
He was a member of the Advisory Committee of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
Membership in specialized scientific societies
The first president of the Zoological Society in the Arab Republic of Egypt upon its establishment in 1958.
President of the Egyptian Society of Marine Sciences
Fellow of the Egyptian Academy of Sciences
Vice President of the Egyptian Academy for Scientific Culture
Fellow of the International Academy of Zoology, India
Fellow of the International Academy of Fisheries Sciences, Rome
Member of the Supreme Fisheries Council since its inception
Sea World programme
He had a popular weekly TV program broadcast on Fridays called Sea World, and it was shown for 18 years, as he was showing films about various marine creatures and he would comment explaining the picture and introducing the different species, their habits and characteristics. Dr. Hamed Gohar had a distinctive voice that was associated with the minds of viewers throughout the years those years. He always began his program with the phrase “good evening” and used to pronounce this phrase in a strong and distinctive way.
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