King Faisal International Prize for Science (1989)
Wolf Prize (Chemistry) (1993)
Order of Merit (1995)
Peter Debye Award (1996)[1]
Tolman Award (1997)
E. Bright Wilson Award (1997)[1]
E. O. Lawrence Award (1998)[1]
The Franklin Medal (United States) (1998)[1]
Paul Karrer Gold Medal (1998)[1]
Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1999)
Order of the Nile (1999)
ForMemRS (2001)[2]
Albert Einstein World Award of Science (2006)
Othmer Gold Medal (2009)
Priestley Medal (2011)
Davy Medal (2011)
Scientific career
Fields
Chemistry
Physics
Institutions
University of California, Berkeley
California Institute of Technology
Tohoku University
Thesis
Optical and magnetic resonance spectra of triplet excitons and localized states in molecular crystals(1975)
Doctoral advisor
Robin M. Hochstrasser
Ahmed Hassan Zewail (February 26, 1946 – August 2, 2016) was an Egyptian and 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.
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Ahmed Hassan Zewail (February 26, 1946 – August 2, 2016) was an Egyptian and American chemist, known as the "father of femtochemistry". He was awarded...
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won a Nobel Prize for science (Abdus Salam from Pakistan in physics, AhmedZewail from Egypt and Aziz Sancar from Turkey in Chemistry). According to Mustafa...
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(1996) at the Festival of Culture Palaces at the Republic level. Dr. AhmedZewail Award (Artistic Creativity Award as Best Voice in the Cairo Opera House)...
Egypt: Abdel Moneim Madbouly Adel Emam Ahmed Zaki Ahmed El Sakka Ahmed Ezz Ahmed Helmy Ahmed Malek Ahmed Mekky Ahmed Ramzy Ali Mansur Amr Waked Anwar Wagdy...
eyes of Nobel laureates, including Desmond Tutu, Sir Joseph Rotblat, AhmedZewail and Wangari Maathai. The film interviews each of the nine Nobel Prize...
the head of the Magdi Yacoub Global Heart Foundation, co-founded with AhmedZewail and Ambassador Mohamed Shaker in 2008, which launched the Aswan Heart...
August: Jennifer Moyle, English research biochemist (b. 1921) 2 August: AhmedZewail, Egyptian chemist and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1946) 19 August: Donald...
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president. Physics – Gerard 't Hooft and Martinus J. G. Veltman Chemistry – AhmedZewail Physiology or Medicine – Günter Blobel Literature – Günter Grass Peace...
Naqvi – British Pakistani physicist Aziz Sancar – American scientist AhmedZewail – American chemist Kalbe Sadiq – Academic and reformer Syed Muhammad...
professor at Harvard University, winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Chemistry AhmedZewail, Damanhour-born Egyptian, scientist, known as the "father of femtochemistry"...
Klerk 1997 Claude Cohen-Tannoudji France (born in Algeria) Physics 1999 AhmedZewail Egypt Chemistry First Egyptian and North African to win a Nobel Prize...
Fellow (1987–1988). Subsequently he held a postdoctoral position with AhmedZewail at California Institute of Technology, after which he joined the faculty...
new advocacy organization, the American Egyptian Strategic Alliance. AhmedZewail Mohamed M. Atalla Nessa Diab Stephen Adly Guirgis Hoda Kotb Rami Malek...
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laureates: Gérard Debreu (UC Berkeley, 1983 Nobel Prize in Economics), AhmedZewail (Caltech, 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry), Igor Mel'čuk (University of...
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