Ahmed Zewail

Ahmed Zewail
أحمد زويل
Zewail in 2010
Born
Ahmed Hassan Zewail

(1946-02-26)February 26, 1946
DiedAugust 2, 2016(2016-08-02) (aged 70)
Resting place6th of October, Giza, Egypt
NationalityEgyptian
CitizenshipEgypt Egypt
United States United States (naturalized)[3]
Alma mater
Known forFemtochemistry
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisOptical and magnetic resonance spectra of triplet excitons and localized states in molecular crystals (1975)
Doctoral advisorRobin M. Hochstrasser

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 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was the Linus Pauling Chair Professor of Chemistry, a professor of physics, and the director of the Physical Biology Center for Ultrafast Science and Technology at the California Institute of Technology.[6]

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  6. ^ "بالفيديو والصور.. جثمان أحمد زويل يوارى الثرى بمدفن أسرته بمدينة 6 أكتوبر". اليوم السابع (in Arabic). 2016-08-07. Retrieved 2024-06-07.