Scholar
Ahmed Zewail
Nobel Prize-winning chemist
1946 – 2016
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Biography
An Egyptian scientist who studied at Alexandria University and then in the United States. He developed a way to observe chemical reactions on extremely short timescales, and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1999.
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Ahmed Zewail won the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his studies of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy.
- Nobel Prize Outreach “The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1999 — Ahmed H. Zewail” nobelprize.org