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Ahmed Zewail

1946 - 2016

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Ahmed Hassan Zewail (February 26, 1946 – August 2, 2016) 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 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ahmed Zewail is the 221st most popular chemist (down from 149th in 2019), the 173rd most popular biography from Egypt (down from 167th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Egyptian Chemist.

Ahmed Zewail is most famous for his work on femtochemistry. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1999 for his work on femtochemistry.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Ahmed Zewail ranks 221 out of 602. Before him are Geoffrey Wilkinson, Sophia Brahe, Leo Baekeland, Osamu Shimomura, Giulio Natta, and C. N. R. Rao. After him are Johan Gottlieb Gahn, John Newlands, Joachim Frank, Hartmut Michel, John Vane, and William Hyde Wollaston.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Ahmed Zewail ranks 97. Before him are Chris Slade, Julian Barnes, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Gerard 't Hooft, Birutė Galdikas, and John C. Mather. After him are Brian Cox, Catharine MacKinnon, Daniel Libeskind, Frank Marshall, Lasse Hallström, and Ismaïl Omar Guelleh. Among people deceased in 2016, Ahmed Zewail ranks 58. Before him are Gene Wilder, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Michael Cimino, Yasuo Takamori, Vesna Vulović, and George Gaynes. After him are Robert Vaughn, Ray Tomlinson, Michèle Morgan, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Marvin Minsky, and Sonia Rykiel.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Ahmed Zewail ranks 173 out of 642. Before him are Pope Dionysius of Alexandria (190), Meritamen (-1400), Fuad II of Egypt (1952), Ptolemy X Alexander I (-140), Ahmose-Nefertari (-1562), and Berenice (-300). After him are Ptolemy VII Neos Philopator (-152), Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad (1927), Mentuhotep I (-2200), Sekhemre Khutawy Sobekhotep (-1800), Hussein Kamel of Egypt (1853), and Ptolemy XI Alexander II (-100).

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Among CHEMISTS In Egypt

Among chemists born in Egypt, Ahmed Zewail ranks 2. Before him are Dorothy Hodgkin (1910). After him are Rashad Khalifa (1935).

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