1. Ahmed Hassan Zewail was an Egyptian-American chemist, known as the "father of femtochemistry".
22 Facts About Ahmed Zewail
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Ahmed Zewail 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.
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Ahmed Zewail was a professor of chemistry and physics at the California Institute of Technology, where he was the first CalTech faculty member to be named the Linus Pauling Chair of Chemical Physics and served as the director of the Physical Biology Center for Ultrafast Science and Technology.
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Ahmed Hassan Zewail was born on February 26,1946, in Damanhur, Egypt, and was raised in Desouk.
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Ahmed Zewail received Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in chemistry from Alexandria University before moving to the United States to complete his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania under the supervision of Robin M Hochstrasser.
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Ahmed Zewail became a naturalized citizen of the United States on March 5,1982.
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Ahmed Zewail was nominated and participated in President Barack Obama's Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, an advisory group of the nation's leading scientists and engineers to advise the President and Vice President and formulate policy in the areas of science, technology, and innovation.
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Ahmed Zewail made critical contributions in ultrafast electron diffraction, which uses short electron pulses rather than light pulses to study chemical reaction dynamics.
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Ahmed Zewail said that he would join a committee for constitutional reform alongside Ayman Nour, Mubarak's rival at the 2005 presidential elections and a leading lawyer.
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Ahmed Zewail played a critical role during this time as described by Egyptian Media.
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Ahmed Zewail's work brought him international attention, receiving awards and honors throughout most of his career for his work in chemistry and physics.
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In 1999, Ahmed Zewail became the first Egyptian to receive a science Nobel Prize when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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Ahmed Zewail gave his Nobel Lecture on "Femtochemistry: Atomic-Scale Dynamics of the Chemical Bond Using Ultrafast Lasers".
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Ahmed Zewail became a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1989, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1993, and the American Philosophical Society in 1998.
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Ahmed Zewail was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 2001.
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Ahmed Zewail was elected as a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences in 2001.
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Ahmed Zewail was made a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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In May 2010, Ahmed Zewail gave the commencement address at Southwestern University.
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Ahmed Zewail had two daughters with Mervat, Maha and Amani.
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Ahmed Zewail died aged 70 on the morning of August 2,2016.
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Ahmed Zewail was recovering from cancer the exact cause of his death is unknown.
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Ahmed Zewail returned to Egypt, but only his body was received at Cairo Airport.