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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.
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.
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.
Nov 6, 2019 · Ahmed Zewail will forever be remembered for three main reasons: first, he was the individual who first demonstrated that the structure and dynamics of atoms in the transition state of chemical reactions could be determined through the judicious use of ultrafast lasers, in a field that he pioneered, for which he coined, called femtochemistry; sec...
Aug 2, 2016 · 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.
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,...
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.
Ahmed H. Zewail Winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. A HMED Z EWAIL. 1999 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy. Background. Born: February 26, 1946. Place of Birth: Egypt.
Oct 12, 1999 · 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.
