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Ahmed Zewail

أحمد حسن زويل

Egyptian chemist.

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Sex or Gender

Male

Occupation

Chemist
University Teacher
Inventor
Physicist

Member Of

14 items
Royal Society
 (2001)
Point in Time
: 2001
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Pontifical Academy of Sciences
National Academy of Sciences
Chinese Academy of Sciences
French Academy of Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Russian Academy of Sciences
Indian National Science Academy
American Philosophical Society
 (1998 - )
Start Time
: 1998
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Physical Society
The World Academy of Sciences
Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie Van België Voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten

Country of Citizenship

Egypt
Series Ordinal
:1

Date of Birth

2/26/1946

Instance Of

Human

Place of Birth

Damanhur

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Award Received

48 items
Guggenheim Fellowship
 (1987)
Point in Time
: 1987
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 (1999)
Award Rationale
: for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy
Award Rationale
: för hans studier av kemiska reaktioners övergångstillstånd med femtosekundspektroskopi
Point in Time
: 1999
Prize Money
: 7,900,000 Swedish krona
Benjamin Franklin Medal
 (1998)
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Point in Time
: 1998
Davy Medal
 (2011)
Award Rationale
: For his seminal contributions to the study of ultrafast reactions and the understanding of transition states in chemistry, and to dynamic electron microscopy.
Point in Time
: 2011
Wolf Prize in Chemistry
 (1993)
Point in Time
: 1993
NAS Award in Chemical Sciences
 (1996)
Point in Time
: 1996
Albert Einstein World Award of Science
 (2005)
Point in Time
: 2005
Priestley Medal
 (2009)
Point in Time
: 2009
King Faisal International Prize in Science
 (1989)
Together With
:
Theodor W. Hänsch
Point in Time
: 1989
Order of the Nile
 (1999)
Point in Time
: 1999
Tolman Award
 (1997)
Point in Time
: 1997
Zeiss Research Award
 (1992)
Point in Time
: 1992
Honorary Doctor of the University of Lausanne
 (1997)
Point in Time
: 1997
Mendel Medal
 (2012)
Point in Time
: 2012
Fellow of the American Physical Society
 (1982)
Point in Time
: 1982
Honorary Doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense
 (2008)
Point in Time
: 2008
E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy
 (1997)
Point in Time
: 1997
Welch Award in Chemistry
 (1997)
Award Rationale
: For his leadership and pioneering contribution to all phases of femtosecond chemistry.
Affiliation
:
California Institute of Technology
Point in Time
: 1997
Herbert P. Broida Prize
 (1995)
Point in Time
: 1995
Earle K. Plyler Prize
 (1993)
Point in Time
: 1993
Knight of the Legion of Honour
 (6/30/2012)
Point in Time
: 6/30/2012
Honorary Doctor of the Peking University
 (2004)
Point in Time
: 2004
Foreign Member of the Royal Society
 (2001)
Point in Time
: 2001
Honorary Doctorate of Lund University
 (2003)
Point in Time
: 2003
Grand Cordon of the National Order of the Cedar‎
Officer of the National Order of Merit
Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences
 (2001)
Point in Time
: 2001
Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award
 (1998)
Point in Time
: 1998
Honorary Doctor of Yale University
 (5/19/2014)
Point in Time
: 5/19/2014
Othmer Gold Medal
 (2009)
Point in Time
: 2009
Linus Pauling Award
 (1997)
Point in Time
: 1997
Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry
 (1996)
Point in Time
: 1996
Great Immigrants Award
 (2010)
Point in Time
: 2010
William H. Nichols Medal
 (1998)
Point in Time
: 1998
Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards
King Faisal Prize
 (1989)
Point in Time
: 1989
Order of the Republic
Order of Merit
Order of the Republic
National Order of the Cedar
Order of Zayed
National Order of Merit
Order of the Republic
Order of the Two Niles
Honorary Doctorate From ENS
 (2003)
Point in Time
: 2003
Honorary Doctor of Baku State University
Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry
 (1998)
Award Rationale
: For his application of ultrafast lasers to probe chemical reactions contributing to the formation of a new field of research called "femtochemistry."
Point in Time
: 1998
Golden Plate Award
 (2000)
Point in Time
: 2000

Educated At

University of Pennsylvania
 (1969 - 1974)
Academic Major
:
Chemistry
Academic Degree
:
Doctor of Philosophy
Start Time
: 1969
End Time
: 1974
Alexandria University
Academic Degree
:
Bachelor's Degree
Academic Degree
:
Master's Degree

Employer

California Institute of Technology

Given Name

Ahmad
Series Ordinal
:1
Ahmed

Religion or Worldview

Islam

Languages Spoken, Written or Signed

English
Arabic

Residence

Los Angeles County
 (1979 - )
Start Time
: 1979
Damanhur

Date of Death

8/2/2016

Place of Death

Pasadena

Manner of Death

Natural Causes

Field of Work

Chemistry

Number of Children

7

Academic Degree

Doctor of Sciences in Chemistry

Cause of Death

Spinal Cord Lymphoma

Described by Source

Dictionary of African Biography
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Birth Name

أحمد حسن زويل

Short Name

أحمد زويل
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Ahmed Zewail

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Place of Burial

6th of October City

Family Name

Zewail

Interested In

Chemistry

Relative

Shakir Al-Fahham
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