- Nabawiya Musa was the first Egyptian woman to go to high school. She later helped other women succeed in education and wrote a book about girls' education. Dr. Farouk El-Baz used remote sensing to find underground water in Egypt's Western Desert and Sinai. Thanks to his work, needed water was discovered. Dr. Zewail received the Nobel Prize for discovering the femtosecond and now helps scientists develop new medicines in California.