Ahmed Zewail

thumb|Ahmed Zewail HD2009 Othmer Gold Medal portrait Ahmed Hassan Zewail (Arabic: أَحْمَد حَسَن زُوَيْل; February 26, 1946 – August 2, 2016) 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 also the first African to win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was a professor of chemistry and physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he was the first Caltech faculty member to be named the Linus Pauling Chair of Chemical Physics and served as the director of the Physical Biology Center for Ultrafast Science and Technology. Quotes Arriving in the States, I had the feeling of being thrown into an ocean. The ocean was full of knowledge, culture and opportunities, and the choice was clear: I could either learn to swim or sink. The culture was foreign, the language was difficult, but my hopes were high. External links Category:Chemists from Egypt Category:Academics from Egypt Category:Wolf Prize in Chemistry laureates Category:Nobel laureates from Egypt Category:Nobel laureates in Chemistry Category:Inventors Category:Muslims from Egypt Category:Immigrants to the United States Category:California Institute of Technology faculty Category:Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Category:University of Pennsylvania alumni Category:Members of the American Philosophical Society Category:Fellows of the Royal Society Category:1946 births Category:2016 deaths