Background
El Moursli was born in Salé in 1954. She had to argue the case then with her father to be a girl who would leave conservative Morocco to study further.
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Rajaa Cherkaoui El Moursli
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Career
She obtained her first degree in mathematics at Lycée Descartes in Rabat. She then went to study in Grenoble in France where she obtained her doctorate in physics at the Laboratoire de Physique subatomique et cosmologie which was part of the Joseph Fourier University. In 1982 she returned to Rabat.
Then she leads a research team for the Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software experiment at European Organization of Nuclear Research. The award cited her contribution to the proof of the existence of the Higgs Boson.
This particle is responsible for the creation of Massachusetts El Moursli raised the level of Moroccan scientific research and healthcare.
The latter was acknowledged because she set up the first master"s degree in medical physics. Dave Charlton, Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software spokesperson congratulated her for her award and said "Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software congratulates Professor Rajaâ Cherkaoui El Moursli for this prestigious award, and the recognition of her part in the discovery of the Higgs boson".
Achievements
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She won the L"Oréal-United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Awards for Women in Science for her work on the Higgs Boson. She says that Neil Armstrong"s achievements and a high school teacher inspired her. In 2015 she was awarded the L"Oréal-United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Awards for Women in Science for Africa and the Arab states.
