Ahmed Zewail
Ahmed Zewail
Ahmed Hassan Zewailis an American and Egyptian scientist, known as the "father of femtochemistry", he won the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry and became the first Arab scientist to win a Nobel Prize in a scientific field. He is the Linus Pauling Chair Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Physics, and the director of the Physical Biology Center for Ultrafast Science and Technology at the California Institute of Technology...
NationalityEgyptian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth26 February 1946
CityDamanhur, Egypt
CountryEgypt
Our femtosecond snapshots can examine a molecule at discrete instants in time.
Mubarak came to power as a hero who fought bravely in Egypt's wars and headed the nation's air force.
Let me put it this way: There is nothing in Islam that is fundamentally against the quest for knowledge.
It is true that Egypt's attempt at democracy after the 2011 revolution encountered many obstacles in governance and infrastructure.
Investment in education and economic prosperity is the best way to cure fanaticism and for establishing a just peace in the Middle East.
I can tell you that the majority of the Egyptians I know, they think of a much wider spectrum of people than the Muslim Brotherhood.
I am not one of the new media experts working all the time with my computers and the PowerPoints and things of that sort.
From the dawn of history, science has probed the universe of unknowns, searching for the uniting laws of nature.
For years, the West supported Mubarak and gave aid for what it hoped was stability - but was actually stagnation - in the Middle East.
Despite differences of faith or even the occasional collisions between them, Egypt is united.
As someone from, and directly involved with, this part of the world, I am convinced Arabs are qualified to regain their glorious past.
America was and still is able to make the necessary changes to maintain research institutions that are the envy of the world.
A femtosecond is comparable to one second in 32 million years. It is like watching a 32-million-year movie to see one second.
There is no 'master plan' on the road to the Nobel Prize. It represents a lot of hard work, a passion for that work and... being in the right place at the right time. For me, that place was Caltech.