Venice Kamel Gouda is an

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research professor and a former Minister of State for Scientific Research (1993–97).

Early life

Daughter to accountant Kamel Gouda and his wife Victoria Attalah, Venice was born on 7 October 1934 and received her B.Sc. degree from

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in 1956. She did her M.Sc. (1959) and PhD (1962) from

Cairo University Cairo University ( ar, جامعة القاهرة, Jāmi‘a al-Qāhira), also known as the Egyptian University from 1908 to 1940, and King Fuad I University and Fu'ād al-Awwal University from 1940 to 1952, is Egypt's premier public university ...

Career

Gouda began her career as an assistant research chemist at the

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(NRC) in 1956 and from 1962 to 1966, was an associate professor at the

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. In 1991, she became the director of NRC's applied inorganic chemistry division. In October 1993 Egyptian President

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appointed her the Minister of State for Scientific Research, a post she held till July 1997. Gouda is an active member of the International Corrosion Council and has headed several Egyptian delegations to foreign countries. In recognition of her contributions to scientific research, the Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology honoured her in 1974. She has also been awarded by the NRC and presidential decoration (1976).

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* * {{Authority Control 1934 births Living people Egyptian academics Ain Shams University alumni Cairo University alumni Clarkson University faculty