Rajaa Cherkaoui El Moursli
Award Name : LOreal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science
Year of Award : 2015
Award for : Physics
Location : Sale, Rabat-Salé-Zemmour-Zaër, Morocco
Rajaa Cherkaoui El Moursli (born 12 May, 1954) is a Moroccan Professor of nuclear physics.In 2015 she was awarded the L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science for Africa and the Arab states. The award cited her contribution to the proof of the existence of the Higgs Boson. This particle is responsible for the creation of mass.