Ahmed Zewail

Ahmed Hassan Zewail (Arabic: أَحْمَد حَسَن زُوَيْل; February 26, 1946 – August 2, 2016) was an Egyptian-American chemist, known as the "father of femtochemistry". He was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry and became the first Egyptian and Arab to win a Nobel Prize in a scientific field, and the first African to win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was a professor of chemistry and physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he was the first Caltech faculty member to be named the Linus Pauling Chair of Chemical Physics and was the director of the Physical Biology Center for Ultrafast Science and Technology.

Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Benjamin Franklin Medal, Davy Medal, Wolf Prize in Chemistry, NAS Award in Chemical Sciences, Albert Einstein World Award of Science, Priestley Medal, King Faisal Prize in Science, Order of the Nile Education: University of Pennsylvania, Alexandria University

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