Ahmed Zewail

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Gender	Male
Death	8 years ago
Date of birth	February 26,1946
Zodiac sign	Pisces
Born	Desouk
	Egypt
Date of died	August 2,2016
Died	Pasadena
	California
	United States
Spouse	Dema Faham
Job	Chemist
	Physicist
	Researcher
Education	University of Pennsylvania
	Alexandria University
	UC Berkeley College of Chemistry
Books	Reflections on World Affairs: Peace and Politics
	4D Visualization of Matter: Recent Collected Works
	4D Electron Microscopy: Imaging in Space and Time
	Physical Biology: From Atoms to Medicine
	Beyond Science
	Age of Science
	Voyage Through Time: Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize
	Femtochemistry: Ultrafast Dynamics of the Chemical Bond
Children	Maha Zewail-Foote
	Nabeel Zewail
	Hani Zewail
	Amani Zewail
Parents	Rawhia Dar
	Hassan Zewail
Date of Reg.	2019-03-08 16:25:59
Date of Upd.	2023-07-27 23:21:55
ID	547282

Nobel Prize in Chemistry
King Faisal International Prize
Priestley Medal
Order of the Nile
Wolf Prize in Chemistry
Davy Medal
Albert Einstein World Award of Science
Franklin Medal
E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy
NAS Award in Chemical Sciences
Paul Karrer Gold Medal
Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada
Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award in Atomic, Molecular, and Chemical Sciences
Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry
King Faisal Prize

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Ahmed Zewail Life story

Ahmed Hassan Zewail was an Egyptian and 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 second African to win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.