Mahmoud Ahmed El Sherbini, Egyptian atomic physicist (Menial Al Kamh, Sharqia 22 January 1909 – 11 June 1998)
Authored papers with great recognition in scientific circles
The Stark effect for strong fields. Philos. Magazine 14(7):384-6, 1932
Did pioneering work on crystal rectification
With Y.L. Youssef. The effect of cooling and of magnetic fields on crystal rectification. Proceed. Phys. Soc. 51:449, 1939
Reversal of rectification by heat in crystal contacts and its analogy to a thermos-electric phenomenon. Proc. Phys. Soc. Lond. 53:120-5, 1941
With Y.L. Youssef. Dependence of the direction of rectification in copper pyrites on voltage, temperature and time of measurement. Nature 147 (3731):543, 1941
Discovered inverse rectification at low temperatures
With Y. Leito. Effect of temperatures on crystal rectification at low temperatures (1938)
SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY
Copper beryllium alloys as secondary electron emitters (1961)
With A. S. El Meligy. Energy levels for the Coulomb potential with cut-off. Zeitschr. fur Angew. Mathem. Physik ZAMP 10(5):474-7, 1959
With I.L. Abdallah. Formation of surface layers under ultrasonic agitation for investigations on secondary electron emission. Proc. Math. Phys. Soc. Egypt 4:45-52, 1956
With S.R. Haddara. Secondary electron emission and surface structure. Proc. Math. Phys. Soc. Egypt 3(3):25-36, 1949
Third order terms in the theory of Stark effect. Philos. Magazine 13(7):24-8, 1932
Three-dimensional periodic orbits in the field of a non-neutral atom. Philos. Magazine 14(7):303-10, 1932
Electron reflection in the low energy region. Thesis (1932)
A simple thermal milliammeter