The Scientist: Caltech Selects Chemist Ahmed Zewail For First Linus Pauling Professorship
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Ahmed Zewail
Ahmed Hassan Zewail was an Egyptian-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 first African to win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was a professor of chemistry and physics at the California Institute of Technology…
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science · Egyptian and American chemist (1946–2016) · chemist · university teacher · inventor · physicist · also Ahmed Zewail, Ahmed H. Zewail, Ahmed Hassan Zewail, Zewail
Born 26 February 1946 · Died 2 August 2016 · Q106624
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2023· 1 entry
2018· 1 entry
C&EN: Ahmed Zewail Award in Ultrafast Science & Technology: Xiaoyang Zhu
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2016· 5 entries
Wall Street Journal: Egyptian Chemist Ahmed Zewail Won Nobel Prize
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At the El-Mosheer Tantawy mosque in Cairo, Egypt
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PBS: Column: Nobel prize-winner Ahmed Zewail's struggle to bring Egypt out of the 'dark ages'
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Yahoo: Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian chemist Zewail dies
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Died 2016-08-02.
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2014· 2 entries
EurekAlert!: Elsevier announces the winner of the 5th Ahmed Zewail Prize in Molecular Sciences
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Awarded honorary doctor of Yale University (2014).
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2012· 3 entries
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (2012).
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Won Mendel Medal (2012).
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“I am a frank man... I have no political ambition, as I have stressed repeatedly that I only want to serve Egypt in the field of science and die as a scientist.”
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2011· 1 entry
Won Davy Medal (2011).
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2010· 3 entries
EurekAlert!: Elsevier announces the winner of the Ahmed Zewail prize in molecular sciences
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Awarded Great Immigrants Award (2010).
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The journal Chemical Physics Letters established the Ahmed Zewail Prize in Molecular Sciences
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2009· 3 entries
Won Othmer Gold Medal (2009).
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Won Priestley Medal (2009).
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US President Barack Obama proclaimed a new Science Envoy program as part of a "new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world
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2008· 2 entries
Nanowerk: 2008 Ahmed Zewail Prize in Molecular Sciences awarded to Professor El-Sayed from Georgia Tech
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense (2008).
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded Albert Einstein World Award of Science (2006).
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2005· 2 entries
“s rival at the 2005 presidential elections and a leading lawyer. Zewail was later mentioned as a respected figure working as an intermediary between the military regime ruling after Mubarak”
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The Ahmed Zewail Award for Ultrafast Science and Technology was established by the American Chemical Society and the Newport Corporation in his honor
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the Peking University (2004).
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2003· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of Lund University (2003).
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2001· 2 entries
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2001).
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Awarded Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences (2001).
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2000· 1 entry
And revived in 2011, is named in his honour
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1999· 5 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1999).
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Awarded Order of the Nile (1999).
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Received Egypt's highest state honour, the Grand Collar of the Nile
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Zewail became the first Egyptian to receive a science Nobel Prize when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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1998· 3 entries
Won Benjamin Franklin Medal (1998).
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Awarded Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award (1998).
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Won William H. Nichols Medal (1998).
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1997· 5 entries
Awarded Honorary doctor of the University of Lausanne (1997).
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Awarded Welch Award in Chemistry (1997).
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Awarded E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy (1997).
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Awarded Linus Pauling Award (1997).
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Awarded Tolman Award (1997).
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1996· 2 entries
Awarded Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry (1996).
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Awarded NAS Award in Chemical Sciences (1996).
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Herbert P. Broida Prize (1995).
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1993· 2 entries
Awarded Earle K. Plyler Prize (1993).
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Awarded Wolf Prize in Chemistry (1993).
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded Zeiss Research Award (1992).
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1989· 3 entries
Awarded King Faisal International Prize in Science (1989).
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Awarded King Faisal Prize (1989).
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The American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1993, and the American Philosophical Society in 1998
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1987).
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1982· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the American Physical Society (1982).
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Was named as a Fellow of the American Physical Society
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1976· 1 entry
And eventually became the first Linus Pauling Chair in Chemical Physics there
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1974· 1 entry
Studied at University of Pennsylvania, Doctor of Philosophy (1969–1974).
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1967· 2 entries
Zewail and his first wife, Mervat, were married in 1967, just before leaving Egypt to attend the University of Pennsylvania for his PhD.
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Just before leaving Egypt to attend the University of Pennsylvania for his PhD
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1946· 2 entries
In Damanhur, Egypt, and was raised in Desouk
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Born 1946-02-26.
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