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Ahmed Hassan Zewail (February 26, 1946 – August 2, 2016) was an Egyptian-American chemist, [4] known as the "father of femtochemistry". [5] 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 , [ 4 ] and the second African to win a ...
Aug 2, 2016 · Ahmed H. Zewail. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1999. Born: 26 February 1946, Damanhur, Egypt. Died: 2 August 2016, Pasadena, CA, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA. Prize motivation: “for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy”
Jul 29, 2024 · Ahmed H. Zewail was an Egyptian-born chemist who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1999 for developing a rapid laser technique that enabled scientists to study the action of atoms during chemical reactions.
Biographical. On the banks of the Nile, the Rosetta branch, I lived an enjoyable childhood in the City of Disuq, which is the home of the famous mosque, Sidi Ibrahim. I was born (February 26, 1946) in nearby Damanhur, the “City of Horus”, only 60 km from Alexandria.
Sep 7, 2016 · Nobel-winning inventor of femtochemistry and statesman. That the first science Nobel prizewinner from the Arabic-speaking world, Ahmed Hassan Zewail, pioneer of ultrafast chemistry,...
Aug 5, 2016 · Ahmed H. Zewail, an Egyptian-American who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1999 for developing a revolutionary technique to observe the dance of molecules as they break apart and come...
Sep 9, 2016 · Ahmed H. Zewail, an Egyptian-American scientist who won the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering investigations of fundamental chemical reactions on the femtosecond time scale, died on 2 August 2016. He was 70 years old.
This years laureate in Chemistry, Ahmed H. Zewail, has studied atoms and molecules in “slow motion” during a reaction and seen what actually happens when chemical bonds break and new ones are created. Zewail’s technique uses what may be described as the world’s fastest camera.
A hmed H. Zewail, an Egyptian-Amer-ican scientist who won the 1999 No-bel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering investigations of fundamental chemi-cal reactions on the femtosecond time scale, died on 2 August 2016. He was 70 years old.
Ahmed Zewail, the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemistry, professor of physics, and director of the Physical Biology Center for Ultrafast Science and Technology at Caltech, passed away on Tuesday, August 2, 2016. He was 70 years old.
