The Reduction of Electric Currents in Non-uniform Thin Plane Sheets and Spherical Shells, Having Special Distributions of Conductivity with Application of Geomagnetism
Attia Ashour was born on 13 September, 1924 as the first child of his father's family in Damietta, Egypt. His father was a farmer and his mother was a trader. He started schooling at the age of seven, and studied at a primary school in Damietta for four years. He attended the Fuad I secondary school (Abbassia secondary school) in Cairo from 1935. He completed secondary education in 1939, and achieved the university entry certificate in 1940. Ashour decided to study Mathematics in the Faculty of Science at the King Fuad I University (Cairo University).[4][5][6]
Career
Ashour started his career immediately after receiving his B.Sc. degree in 1944 as a graduate assistant at Fuad I University now Cairo University, Egypt. He worked for a year and two months before leaving for London for his PhD.[4][5] Ashour was awarded a PhD in 1948 from the Imperial College London for his work on electromagnetic induction. His thesis titled The Reduction of Electric Currents in Non-uniform Thin Plane Sheets and Spherical Shells, Having Special Distributions of Conductivity with Application of Geomagnetism, co-written with his Ph.D. supervisor Albert Price, was published that December.[2][4][5][7][6]
^Ashour, Attia (1 January 1950). "The Induction of Electric Currents in a Uniform Circular Disk". The Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics. 3 (1): 119–128. doi:10.1093/QJMAM/3.1.119. S2CID121441979.