Ahmad zuwail

  • Birth

    Birth
    born February 26, 1946 in Damanhour, Egypt
  • Movement

    Movement
    went to Berkeley, excited by the new opportunities
  • Academic Career

    Academic Career
    became a naturalized citizen of the United States
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    Marriage

    he got married and engaged in the same year to Dema Fahem
  • Father Dealth

    His father died
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    Noble Prize

    father of femtochemistry, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in this field in 1999
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    Election

    elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS)
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    Books

    Voyage Through Time: Walks of Life to the Noble Prize
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    Awards and Honors

    received the Albert Einstein World Award of Science for "his pioneering development of the new field of femtoscience and for his seminal contributions to the revolutionary discipline of physical biology"
  • Physical Biology

    Physical Biology
    avant-garde book edited by Nobel Laureate Ahmed Zewail with contributions from eminent scientists including four Nobel prize winners.
  • Political Work

    Political Work
    In Cairo University , US President Barack Obama announced a new Science Envoy program as part of a "new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world."
  • Honors

    Honors
    published an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times urging the U.S. government to remain constructively engaged with Egypt
  • Dealth

    Dealth
    died from cancer