Rammal Rammal

Rammal Hassan Rammal (September 30, 1951 – May 31, 1991) was a Lebanese condensed matter physicist. He was born in Doueir, South Lebanon. He lived and went to school in Beirut. He was the top student in his class. He graduated high school and ranked first place in the official exams of the baccalaureate Section II (general science) in Lebanon. At 18 years old, he traveled to France to continue his education and start his scientific career. He studied at the Joseph Fourier University in France and got his baccalaureate in mathematics and physics. In 1981, he achieved his international doctorate there and started working at CNRS in Grenoble. Rammal continued working in France for most of his professional life. He achieved a lot in his life and won a number of awards.

Between 1978 and 1981, Rammal worked as a researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research (CRNS) in low-temperature physics department. He had a thesis that it subject addressed as follows: "The importance of statistical mechanics to explain the energy distribution in solids transparent (amorphous) spiral shape using numerical methods", this thesis was discussed in front of 16 scientists, senior physicists in France and it was a subject of appreciation and admiration prompting then the French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac to meet student researcher Rammal Rammal. This thesis has caused a major stir in the academic community and in France.

Rammal became famous all around the world, he went to many important universities in the United States as a visiting professor and an especially in the US space agency, "NASA".

During 1983-1984, Rammal served as a visiting professor for six months in Nuclear Physics, co-managing the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia Research Department (United States) and National Laboratory Brokmaven in Upton (New York). He had also served as a visiting professor for another six months in the Department of Physics at the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec (Canada).

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