The American University in Cairo

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Last Updated: October 1, 2009
Other Name: N/A
Location: Cairo, Egypt
Subordinate To: Ministry of Higher Education
Size: Nuclear laboratory and several courses in nuclear physics
Facility Status: Open enrollment

The American University in Cairo possesses a small interdisciplinary nuclear program. The physics department houses a nuclear laboratory, while the department of chemistry has a nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer and an atomic absorption spectrophotometer. The Department of Petroleum and Energy Engineering offers courses in nuclear technologies. IAEA former Director General Mohamed El-Baradei is one of the school's trustees.

Source: American University in Cairo, www.aucegypt.edu.

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