Sameera Moussa was the first female Egyptian nuclear physicist in 1935. She held a doctorate in atomic radiation.  She dedicated her life to making medical nuclear power affordable to all. She got scholarship from the Fulbright Atomic in order to be acquainted with the modern research facilities at California University. In acknowledgment of her pioneering nuclear research, she was given permission to visit the secret US atomic facilities. Sameera Moussa was the first associate professor at the school of Sciences at Cairo University and more notably the first woman at the university to obtain a university post due to her revolutionary PhD in atomic radiation.