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.infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style>Ahmed Hassan Zewail (February 26, 1946 – August 2, 2016) was an <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_Americans" title="Egyptian Americans">Egyptian-American</a> chemist,<a href="#cite_note-:0-4">[4]</a> known as the "father of <a href="/wiki/Femtochemistry" title="Femtochemistry">femtochemistry</a>".<a href="#cite_note-father_of-5">[5]</a> He was awarded the 1999 <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Chemistry" title="Nobel Prize in Chemistry">Nobel Prize in Chemistry</a> for his work on femtochemistry and became the first Egyptian and Arab to win a <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize" title="Nobel Prize">Nobel Prize</a> in a <a href="/wiki/Scientific_field" class="mw-redirect" title="Scientific field">scientific field</a>,<a href="#cite_note-:0-4">[4]</a> and the second African to win a Nobel Prize in <a href="/wiki/Chemistry" title="Chemistry">Chemistry</a>. He was the <a href="/wiki/Linus_Pauling" title="Linus Pauling">Linus Pauling</a> Chair Professor of Chemistry, a professor of physics, and the director of the Physical Biology Center for Ultrafast Science and Technology at the <a href="/wiki/California_Institute_of_Technology" title="California Institute of Technology">California Institute of Technology</a>.<a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a> <table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Ahmed Zewail</div><div class="honorific-suffix" style="font-size: 77%; font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Nile" title="Order of the Nile">ON</a> <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Merit_(Egypt)" title="Order of Merit (Egypt)">OME</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="font-size:125%;">أحمد زويل</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><a href="/wiki/File:Ahmed_Zewail_HD2009_Othmer_Gold_Medal_portrait.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Ahmed_Zewail_HD2009_Othmer_Gold_Medal_portrait.JPG/220px-Ahmed_Zewail_HD2009_Othmer_Gold_Medal_portrait.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="300" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Ahmed_Zewail_HD2009_Othmer_Gold_Medal_portrait.JPG/330px-Ahmed_Zewail_HD2009_Othmer_Gold_Medal_portrait.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Ahmed_Zewail_HD2009_Othmer_Gold_Medal_portrait.JPG/440px-Ahmed_Zewail_HD2009_Othmer_Gold_Medal_portrait.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2227" data-file-height="3035"></a><div class="infobox-caption">Zewail in 2010</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Ahmed Hassan Zewail</div> (1946-02-26)February 26, 1946 <div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Damanhur" title="Damanhur">Damanhur</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Egypt" title="Kingdom of Egypt">Egypt</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">August 2, 2016(2016-08-02) (aged 70) <div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Pasadena,_California" title="Pasadena, California">Pasadena, California</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Resting place</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/6th_of_October_(city)" title="6th of October (city)">6th of October</a>, <a href="/wiki/Giza" title="Giza">Giza</a>, <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Egyptians" title="Egyptians">Egyptian</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Citizenship</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt"><img alt="Egypt" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Flag_of_Egypt.svg/23px-Flag_of_Egypt.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Flag_of_Egypt.svg/35px-Flag_of_Egypt.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Flag_of_Egypt.svg/45px-Flag_of_Egypt.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600"></a> <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a> <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States"><img alt="United States" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650"></a> <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> (naturalized)<a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexandria_University" title="Alexandria University">University of Alexandria</a> (B.S., M.S.)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/University_of_Pennsylvania" title="University of Pennsylvania">University of Pennsylvania</a> (Ph.D.)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Femtochemistry" title="Femtochemistry">Femtochemistry</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/King_Faisal_International_Prize_for_Science" class="mw-redirect" title="King Faisal International Prize for Science">King Faisal International Prize for Science</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wolf_Prize" title="Wolf Prize">Wolf Prize</a> (Chemistry) (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Order_of_Merit_(Egypt)" title="Order of Merit (Egypt)">Order of Merit</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Debye_Award" title="Peter Debye Award">Peter Debye Award</a> (1996)<a href="#cite_note-autobio-1">[1]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tolman_Award" title="Tolman Award">Tolman Award</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/E._Bright_Wilson_Award_in_Spectroscopy" title="E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy">E. Bright Wilson Award</a> (1997)<a href="#cite_note-autobio-1">[1]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernest_Orlando_Lawrence_Award" title="Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award">E. O. Lawrence Award</a> (1998)<a href="#cite_note-autobio-1">[1]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Franklin_Institute_Awards" class="mw-redirect" title="The Franklin Institute Awards">The Franklin Medal</a> (United States) (1998)<a href="#cite_note-autobio-1">[1]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Karrer_Gold_Medal" title="Paul Karrer Gold Medal">Paul Karrer Gold Medal</a> (1998)<a href="#cite_note-autobio-1">[1]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_for_Chemistry" class="mw-redirect" title="Nobel Prize for Chemistry">Nobel Prize for Chemistry</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Nile" title="Order of the Nile">Order of the Nile</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society" title="Fellow of the Royal Society">ForMemRS</a> (2001)<a href="#cite_note-formemrs-2">[2]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Einstein_World_Award_of_Science" title="Albert Einstein World Award of Science">Albert Einstein World Award of Science</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Othmer_Gold_Medal" title="Othmer Gold Medal">Othmer Gold Medal</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Priestley_Medal" title="Priestley Medal">Priestley Medal</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Davy_Medal" title="Davy Medal">Davy Medal</a> (2011)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546">Scientific career</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fields</th><td class="infobox-data category"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Femtochemistry" title="Femtochemistry">Femtochemistry</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Institutions</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley" title="University of California, Berkeley">University of California, Berkeley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/California_Institute_of_Technology" title="California Institute of Technology">California Institute of Technology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zewail_City_of_Science,_Technology_and_Innovation" title="Zewail City of Science, Technology and Innovation">Zewail City of Science, Technology and Innovation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tohoku_University" title="Tohoku University">Tohoku University</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Thesis" title="Thesis">Thesis</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.proquest.com/docview/302738220/">Optical and magnetic resonance spectra of triplet excitons and localized states in molecular crystals</a> (1975)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Doctoral_advisor" title="Doctoral advisor">Doctoral advisor</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Robin_M._Hochstrasser" title="Robin M. Hochstrasser">Robin M. Hochstrasser</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Early_life_and_education">1 Early life and education</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Career">2 Career</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Research">3 Research</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Political_work">4 Political work</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#Awards_and_honours">5 Awards and honours</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="#Honorary_degrees">5.1 Honorary degrees</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="#Egyptian_national_honours">5.2 Egyptian national honours</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="#Foreign_honours">5.3 Foreign honours</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="#Personal_life">6 Personal life</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10"><a href="#Death_and_funeral">7 Death and funeral</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11"><a href="#Publications">8 Publications</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12"><a href="#Scientific">8.1 Scientific</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13"><a href="#Biographical">8.2 Biographical</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14"><a href="#Remembering_Ahmed_H._Zewail">8.3 Remembering Ahmed H. Zewail</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15"><a href="#See_also">9 See also</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16"><a href="#References">10 References</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17"><a href="#External_links">11 External links</a></li> </ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(1)"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Ahmed_Zewail&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-1 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-1"> Ahmed Hassan Zewail was born on February 26, 1946, in <a href="/wiki/Damanhur" title="Damanhur">Damanhur</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Egypt" title="Kingdom of Egypt">Egypt</a>, and was raised in <a href="/wiki/Desouk" title="Desouk">Desouk</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Washington_Post-7">[7]</a> He received <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Science" title="Bachelor of Science">Bachelor of Science</a> and <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Science" title="Master of Science">Master of Science</a> degrees in chemistry from <a href="/wiki/Alexandria_University" title="Alexandria University">Alexandria University</a> before moving to the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> to complete his <a href="/wiki/Doctor_of_Philosophy" title="Doctor of Philosophy">PhD</a> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Pennsylvania" title="University of Pennsylvania">University of Pennsylvania</a> under the supervision of <a href="/wiki/Robin_M._Hochstrasser" title="Robin M. Hochstrasser">Robin M. Hochstrasser</a>.<a href="#cite_note-autobio-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Ahmed_Zewail&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> After completing his PhD, Zewail did <a href="/wiki/Postdoctoral_research" class="mw-redirect" title="Postdoctoral research">postdoctoral research</a> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley" title="University of California, Berkeley">University of California, Berkeley</a>, supervised by <a href="/wiki/Charles_B._Harris" title="Charles B. Harris">Charles B. Harris</a>.<a href="#cite_note-autobio-1">[1]</a> Following this, he was awarded a faculty appointment at the <a href="/wiki/California_Institute_of_Technology" title="California Institute of Technology">California Institute of Technology</a> in 1976, and eventually became the first <a href="/wiki/Linus_Pauling" title="Linus Pauling">Linus Pauling</a> Chair in Chemical Physics there.<a href="#cite_note-autobio-1">[1]</a> He became a <a href="/wiki/Naturalized_citizen" class="mw-redirect" title="Naturalized citizen">naturalized citizen</a> of the United States on March 5, 1982.<a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a> Zewail was the director of the Physical Biology Center for Ultrafast Science and Technology at the <a href="/wiki/California_Institute_of_Technology" title="California Institute of Technology">California Institute of Technology</a>.<a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:CFP_members_with_Dr._Ahmed_Zewail.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img alt="CFP_members_with_Dr._Ahmed_Zewail" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/CFP_members_with_Dr._Ahmed_Zewail.jpg/220px-CFP_members_with_Dr._Ahmed_Zewail.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1360"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 146px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/CFP_members_with_Dr._Ahmed_Zewail.jpg/220px-CFP_members_with_Dr._Ahmed_Zewail.jpg" data-alt="CFP_members_with_Dr._Ahmed_Zewail" data-width="220" data-height="146" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/CFP_members_with_Dr._Ahmed_Zewail.jpg/330px-CFP_members_with_Dr._Ahmed_Zewail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/CFP_members_with_Dr._Ahmed_Zewail.jpg/440px-CFP_members_with_Dr._Ahmed_Zewail.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Zewail with his colleagues at the <a href="/wiki/Zewail_City_of_Science,_Technology_and_Innovation" title="Zewail City of Science, Technology and Innovation">Zewail City of Science, Technology and Innovation</a> in 2012</figcaption></figure>Zewail was nominated and participated in President Barack Obama's <a href="/wiki/The_United_States_President%27s_Council_of_Advisors_on_Science_and_Technology" class="mw-redirect" title="The United States President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology">Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology</a> (PCAST), an advisory group of the nation's leading scientists and engineers to advise the President and Vice President and formulate policy in the areas of science, technology, and innovation.<a href="#cite_note-WhiteHouse-11">[11]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(3)"><h2 id="Research">Research</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Ahmed_Zewail&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Research" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-3 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-3"> Zewail's key work was a pioneer of <a href="/wiki/Femtochemistry" title="Femtochemistry">femtochemistry</a><a href="#cite_note-father_of-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-PalZewail2004-12">[12]</a><a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a>—i.e. the study of <a href="/wiki/Chemical_reaction" title="Chemical reaction">chemical reactions</a> across <a href="/wiki/Femtosecond" title="Femtosecond">femtoseconds</a>. Using a rapid <a href="/wiki/Ultrafast" class="mw-redirect" title="Ultrafast">ultrafast</a> <a href="/wiki/Laser" title="Laser">laser</a> technique (consisting of <a href="/wiki/Ultrashort_pulse" title="Ultrashort pulse">ultrashort</a> laser flashes), the technique allows the description of reactions on very short time scales – short enough to analyse <a href="/wiki/Transition_state" title="Transition state">transition states</a> in selected chemical reactions.<a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ahmed_Zewail_1986.png" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img alt="Ahmed_Zewail_1986" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Ahmed_Zewail_1986.png/160px-Ahmed_Zewail_1986.png" decoding="async" width="160" height="218" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="555" data-file-height="755"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 160px;height: 218px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Ahmed_Zewail_1986.png/160px-Ahmed_Zewail_1986.png" data-alt="Ahmed_Zewail_1986" data-width="160" data-height="218" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Ahmed_Zewail_1986.png/240px-Ahmed_Zewail_1986.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Ahmed_Zewail_1986.png/320px-Ahmed_Zewail_1986.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Zewail in 1986</figcaption></figure> Zewail became known as the "father of femtochemistry".<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a> He also made critical contributions in <a href="/wiki/Ultrafast_electron_diffraction" title="Ultrafast electron diffraction">ultrafast electron diffraction</a>, which uses short electron pulses rather than light pulses to study chemical reaction dynamics.<a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(4)"><h2 id="Political_work">Political work</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Ahmed_Zewail&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Political work" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-4 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-4"> In a speech at <a href="/wiki/Cairo_University" title="Cairo University">Cairo University</a> on June 4, 2009, US President <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> proclaimed a new Science Envoy program as part of a "new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world."<a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a> In January 2010, Ahmed Zewail, <a href="/wiki/Elias_Zerhouni" title="Elias Zerhouni">Elias Zerhouni</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Alberts" title="Bruce Alberts">Bruce Alberts</a> became the first US science envoys to Islam, visiting Muslim-majority countries from North Africa to Southeast Asia.<a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a><figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ahmed_Zewail_(2010).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img alt="Ahmed_Zewail_(2010)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Ahmed_Zewail_%282010%29.jpg/160px-Ahmed_Zewail_%282010%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="241" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2476" data-file-height="3735"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 160px;height: 241px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Ahmed_Zewail_%282010%29.jpg/160px-Ahmed_Zewail_%282010%29.jpg" data-alt="Ahmed_Zewail_(2010)" data-width="160" data-height="241" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Ahmed_Zewail_%282010%29.jpg/240px-Ahmed_Zewail_%282010%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Ahmed_Zewail_%282010%29.jpg/319px-Ahmed_Zewail_%282010%29.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Zewail in 2010</figcaption></figure>When asked about rumors that he might contest the <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_presidential_election,_2011" class="mw-redirect" title="Egyptian presidential election, 2011">2011 Egyptian presidential election</a>, Ahmed Zewail said: "I am a frank man... I have no political ambition, as I have stressed repeatedly that I only want to serve Egypt in the field of science and die as a scientist."<a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a><a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a> During the <a href="/wiki/2011_Egyptian_protests" class="mw-redirect" title="2011 Egyptian protests">2011 Egyptian protests</a> he announced his return to the country. Zewail said that he would join a committee for constitutional reform alongside <a href="/wiki/Ayman_Nour" title="Ayman Nour">Ayman Nour</a>, Mubarak's rival at the 2005 presidential elections and a leading lawyer.<a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a> Zewail was later mentioned as a respected figure working as an intermediary between the military regime ruling after Mubarak's resignation, and revolutionary youth groups such as the <a href="/wiki/April_6_Youth_Movement" title="April 6 Youth Movement">April 6 Youth Movement</a> and young supporters of <a href="/wiki/Mohamed_ElBaradei" title="Mohamed ElBaradei">Mohamed ElBaradei</a>.<a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a> He played a critical role during this time as described by Egyptian Media. </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(5)"><h2 id="Awards_and_honours">Awards and honours</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Ahmed_Zewail&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Awards and honours" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-5 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-5"> Zewail's work brought him international attention, receiving awards and honors throughout most of his career for his work in chemistry and physics. In 1999, Zewail became the first Egyptian to receive a science <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize" title="Nobel Prize">Nobel Prize</a> when he was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Chemistry" title="Nobel Prize in Chemistry">Nobel Prize in Chemistry</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Washington_Post-7">[7]</a> Zewail gave his Nobel Lecture on "Femtochemistry: Atomic-Scale Dynamics of the Chemical Bond Using Ultrafast Lasers".<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a><a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a> In 1999, he received Egypt's highest state honour, the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Nile" title="Order of the Nile">Grand Collar of the Nile</a>.<a href="#cite_note-autobio-1">[1]</a> Other notable awards include the <a href="/wiki/Humboldt_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Humboldt Prize">Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award</a> (1983), the <a href="/wiki/King_Faisal_International_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="King Faisal International Prize">King Faisal International Prize</a> (1989),<a href="#cite_note-autobio-1">[1]</a> the <a href="/wiki/Wolf_Prize" title="Wolf Prize">Wolf Prize</a> in Chemistry (1993), the <a href="/wiki/Earle_K._Plyler_Prize_for_Molecular_Spectroscopy" class="mw-redirect" title="Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy">Earle K. Plyler Prize</a> (1993), the <a href="/wiki/Herbert_P._Broida_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Herbert P. Broida Prize">Herbert P. Broida Prize</a> (1995), the <a href="/wiki/Peter_Debye_Award" title="Peter Debye Award">Peter Debye Award</a> (1996), the <a href="/wiki/Tolman_Award" title="Tolman Award">Tolman Award</a> (1997),<a href="#cite_note-autobio-1">[1]</a> the <a href="/wiki/Welch_Award_in_Chemistry" title="Welch Award in Chemistry">Robert A. Welch Award</a> (1997),<a href="#cite_note-autobio-1">[1]</a> the <a href="/wiki/Linus_Pauling_Medal" class="mw-redirect" title="Linus Pauling Medal">Linus Pauling Medal</a> (1997), the <a href="/wiki/Franklin_Medal" title="Franklin Medal">Franklin Medal</a> (1998) and the Golden Plate Award of the <a href="/wiki/Academy_of_Achievement" title="Academy of Achievement">American Academy of Achievement</a> (2000).<a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a> In October 2006, Zewail received the <a href="/wiki/Albert_Einstein_World_Award_of_Science" title="Albert Einstein World Award of Science">Albert Einstein World Award of Science</a> for "his pioneering development of the new field of femtoscience and for his seminal contributions to the revolutionary discipline of physical biology, creating new ways for better understanding the functional behavior of biological systems by directly visualizing them in the four dimensions of space and time."<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a> Zewail was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Othmer_Gold_Medal" title="Othmer Gold Medal">Othmer Gold Medal</a> (2009),<a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a><a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a> the <a href="/wiki/Priestley_Medal" title="Priestley Medal">Priestley Medal</a> (2011) from the <a href="/wiki/American_Chemical_Society" title="American Chemical Society">American Chemical Society</a><a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Davy_Medal" title="Davy Medal">Davy Medal</a> (2011) from the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society" title="Royal Society">Royal Society</a>.<a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a> In 1982 he was named as a Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/American_Physical_Society" title="American Physical Society">American Physical Society</a>.<a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a> Zewail became a member of the <a href="/wiki/National_Academy_of_Sciences" title="National Academy of Sciences">National Academy of Sciences</a> in 1989,<a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a> the <a href="/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences" title="American Academy of Arts and Sciences">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a> in 1993,<a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a> and the <a href="/wiki/American_Philosophical_Society" title="American Philosophical Society">American Philosophical Society</a> in 1998.<a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a> Zewail was elected a <a href="/wiki/Foreign_Member_of_the_Royal_Society" class="mw-redirect" title="Foreign Member of the Royal Society">Foreign Member of the Royal Society</a> (ForMemRS) in 2001.<a href="#cite_note-formemrs-2">[2]</a> He was also elected as a Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/African_Academy_of_Sciences" title="African Academy of Sciences">African Academy of Sciences</a> in 2001.<a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a> Zewail was made a Foreign Member of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Swedish_Academy_of_Sciences" title="Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences">Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences</a>.<a href="#cite_note-autobio-1">[1]</a> In 2005, the Ahmed Zewail Award for Ultrafast Science and Technology was established by the American Chemical Society and the <a href="/wiki/Newport_Corporation_(company)" class="mw-redirect" title="Newport Corporation (company)">Newport Corporation</a> in his honor.<a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a> In 2010 the journal <a href="/wiki/Chemical_Physics_Letters" title="Chemical Physics Letters">Chemical Physics Letters</a> established the Ahmed Zewail Prize in Molecular Sciences.<a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a> In May 2010, Zewail gave the commencement address at <a href="/wiki/Southwestern_University" title="Southwestern University">Southwestern University</a>.<a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Zewail_City_of_Science_and_Technology" class="mw-redirect" title="Zewail City of Science and Technology">Zewail City of Science and Technology</a>, established in 2000 and revived in 2011, is named in his honour.<a href="#cite_note-Washington_Post-7">[7]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Honorary_degrees">Honorary degrees</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Ahmed_Zewail&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Honorary degrees" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Zewail was bestowed honorary degrees by the following institutions: <a href="/wiki/University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford">University of Oxford</a>, UK (1991); <a href="/wiki/The_American_University_in_Cairo" class="mw-redirect" title="The American University in Cairo">The American University in Cairo</a>, Egypt (1993); <a href="/wiki/KU_Leuven" title="KU Leuven">Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven</a>, Belgium (1997); <a href="/wiki/University_of_Pennsylvania" title="University of Pennsylvania">University of Pennsylvania</a>, US (1997); <a href="/wiki/University_of_Lausanne" title="University of Lausanne">University of Lausanne</a>, Switzerland (1997); <a href="/wiki/Swinburne_University_of_Technology" title="Swinburne University of Technology">Swinburne University of Technology</a>, Australia (1999); <a href="/wiki/Arab_Academy_for_Science,_Technology_%26_Maritime_Transport" class="mw-redirect" title="Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport">Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport</a>, Egypt (1999); D.Sc. <a href="/wiki/Alexandria_University" title="Alexandria University">Alexandria University</a>, Egypt (1999); D.Sc. <a href="/wiki/University_of_New_Brunswick" title="University of New Brunswick">University of New Brunswick</a>, Canada (2000); <a href="/wiki/Sapienza_University_of_Rome" title="Sapienza University of Rome">Sapienza University of Rome</a>, Italy (2000); <a href="/wiki/University_of_Li%C3%A8ge" title="University of Liège">University of Liège</a>, Belgium (2000);<a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a> <a href="/wiki/Heriot-Watt_University" title="Heriot-Watt University">Heriot-Watt University</a>, Scotland (2002);<a href="#cite_note-autobio-1">[1]</a> <a href="/wiki/Lund_University" title="Lund University">Lund University</a>, Sweden (2003); <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">Cambridge University</a> (2006);<a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a> <a href="/wiki/Complutense_University_of_Madrid" title="Complutense University of Madrid">Complutense University of Madrid</a>, Spain (2008);<a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a> <a href="/wiki/University_of_Jordan" title="University of Jordan">University of Jordan</a>, Jordan (2009);<a href="#cite_note-JT-42">[42]</a> <a href="/wiki/University_of_Glasgow" title="University of Glasgow">University of Glasgow</a>, Scotland (2011);<a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a> <a href="/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale University</a>, US (2014).<a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Egyptian_national_honours">Egyptian national honours</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Ahmed_Zewail&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Egyptian national honours" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <noscript><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Flag_of_Egypt.svg/23px-Flag_of_Egypt.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 23px;height: 15px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Flag_of_Egypt.svg/23px-Flag_of_Egypt.svg.png" data-alt="" data-width="23" data-height="15" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Flag_of_Egypt.svg/35px-Flag_of_Egypt.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Flag_of_Egypt.svg/45px-Flag_of_Egypt.svg.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element">  <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a> <ul><li>Grand Cross of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Merit_(Egypt)" title="Order of Merit (Egypt)">Order of Merit (Egypt)</a> (1995)</li> <li>Grand Cordon of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Republic_(Egypt)" title="Order of the Republic (Egypt)">Order of the Arab Republic of Egypt</a> (1998)</li> <li>Grand Collar of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Nile" title="Order of the Nile">Order of the Nile</a> (1999)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Foreign_honours">Foreign honours</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Ahmed_Zewail&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Foreign honours" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <noscript><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/23px-Flag_of_France.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" 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cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-6 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-6"> Zewail and his first wife, Mervat, were married in 1967, just before leaving Egypt to attend the University of Philadelphia. He had two daughters with Mervat, Maha and Amani. They separated in 1979.<a href="#cite_note-editor-45">[45]</a><a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a> Zewail married Dema Faham in 1989.<a href="#cite_note-autobio-1">[1]</a> Zewail and Faham had two sons, Nabeel and Hani.<a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a><a href="#cite_note-48">[48]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(7)"><h2 id="Death_and_funeral">Death and funeral</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Ahmed_Zewail&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Death and funeral" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-7 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-7"> Zewail died aged 70 on the morning of August 2, 2016. He was recovering from cancer, however, the exact cause of his death is unknown.<a href="#cite_note-49">[49]</a><a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a><a href="#cite_note-Ahram-51">[51]</a> Zewail returned to Egypt, but only his body was received at Cairo Airport.<a href="#cite_note-editor-45">[45]</a> A military funeral was held for Zewail on August 7, 2016, at the El-Mosheer Tantawy mosque in Cairo, Egypt.<a href="#cite_note-Ahram-51">[51]</a> Those attending included President <a href="/wiki/Abdel_Fattah_el-Sisi" title="Abdel Fattah el-Sisi">Abdel Fattah el-Sisi</a>, Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Sherif_Ismail" title="Sherif Ismail">Sherif Ismail</a>, al-Azhar Grand Imam <a href="/wiki/Ahmed_el-Tayeb" title="Ahmed el-Tayeb">Ahmed el-Tayeb</a>, Defence Minister <a href="/wiki/Sedki_Sobhi" class="mw-redirect" title="Sedki Sobhi">Sedki Sobhi</a>, former President <a href="/wiki/Adly_Mansour" title="Adly Mansour">Adly Mansour</a>, former Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Ibrahim_Mahlab" title="Ibrahim Mahlab">Ibrahim Mahlab</a> and heart surgeon <a href="/wiki/Magdi_Yacoub" title="Magdi Yacoub">Magdi Yacoub</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Ahram-51">[51]</a> The funeral prayers were led by <a href="/wiki/Ali_Gomaa" title="Ali Gomaa">Ali Gomaa</a>, former <a href="/wiki/Grand_Mufti_of_Egypt" class="mw-redirect" title="Grand Mufti of Egypt">Grand Mufti of Egypt</a>.<a href="#cite_note-52">[52]</a><a href="#cite_note-Ahram-51">[51]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(8)"><h2 id="Publications">Publications</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Ahmed_Zewail&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Publications" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-8 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-8"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 36em;"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Scientific">Scientific</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Ahmed_Zewail&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Scientific" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <ul><li>Advances in Laser Spectroscopy I, ed. A. H. Zewail, SPIE, Bellingham, 1977</li> <li>Advances in Laser Chemistry, ed. A. H. Zewail, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg, 1978</li> <li>Photochemistry and Photobiology, Vols. 1 and 2, ed. A. H. Zewail, Harwood Academic, London, 1983</li> <li>Ultrafast Phenomena VII, eds. C. B. Harris, E. P. Ippen, G. A. Mourou and A. H. Zewail, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg, 1990</li> <li>The Chemical Bond: Structure and Dynamics, ed. A. H. Zewail, Academic Press, Boston, 1992</li> <li>Ultrafast Phenomena VIII, eds. J.-L. Martin, A. Migus, G. A. Mourou, and A. H. Zewail, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg, 1993</li> <li>Ultrafast Phenomena IX, eds. P. F. Barbara, W. H. Knox, G. A. Mourou, and A. H. Zewail, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg, 1994</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/2331-vol1">Femtochemistry: Ultrafast Dynamics of the Chemical Bond Vol. I</a>, A. H. Zewail, World Scientific, 1994</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/2331-vol2">Femtochemistry: Ultrafast Dynamics of the Chemical Bond Vol. II</a>, A. H. Zewail, World Scientific, 1994</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/p559">Physical Biology: From Atoms to Medicine</a>, ed. A. H. Zewail, Imperial College Press, London, 2008</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120520002949/http://www.worldscibooks.com/chemistry/p641.html">4D Electron Microscopy</a>, ed. A. H. Zewail, Imperial College Press, London, 2009</li> <li>International Advisory Board for <a href="/wiki/Encyclopedia_of_Analytical_Chemistry" title="Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry">Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry</a> (1999–2014)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/p953">4D Visualization of Matter: Recent Collected Works of Ahmed H Zewail, Nobel Laureate</a>, Imperial College Press, London, 2014</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Biographical">Biographical</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Ahmed_Zewail&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Biographical" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/5250">Voyage Through Time: Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize</a>, Ahmed H Zewail, World Scientific, 2002</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Age_of_Science" title="Age of Science">Age of Science</a> (2005, autobiography in Arabic)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Remembering_Ahmed_H._Zewail">Remembering Ahmed H. Zewail</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Ahmed_Zewail&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Remembering Ahmed H. Zewail" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFCherguiMarcusThomasZhong2017" class="citation book cs1">Chergui, Majed; Marcus, Rudolph A.; Thomas, John Meurig; Zhong, Dongping (2017). Majed Chergui; Rudolph A Marcus; John Meurig Thomas; Dongping Zhong (eds.). Personal and Scientific Reminiscences: Tributes to Ahmed Zewail. World Scientific. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1142%2Fq0128">10.1142/q0128</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-78634-435-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-78634-435-9"><bdi>978-1-78634-435-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Personal+and+Scientific+Reminiscences%3A+Tributes+to+Ahmed+Zewail&rft.pub=World+Scientific&rft.date=2017&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1142%2Fq0128&rft.isbn=978-1-78634-435-9&rft.aulast=Chergui&rft.aufirst=Majed&rft.au=Marcus%2C+Rudolph+A.&rft.au=Thomas%2C+John+Meurig&rft.au=Zhong%2C+Dongping&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAhmed+Zewail" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDouhalBaskinZhong2017" class="citation book cs1">Douhal, Abderrazzak; Baskin, John Spencer; Zhong, Dongping (2017). Abderrazzak Douhal; John Spencer Baskin; Dongping Zhong (eds.). Reminiscences of Ahmed H. Zewail: Photons, Electrons and What Else? A Portrait from Close Range. Remembrances of his Group Members and Family. World Scientific. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1142%2F10750">10.1142/10750</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-981-323-153-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-981-323-153-5"><bdi>978-981-323-153-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Reminiscences+of+Ahmed+H.+Zewail%3A+Photons%2C+Electrons+and+What+Else%3F+A+Portrait+from+Close+Range.+Remembrances+of+his+Group+Members+and+Family&rft.pub=World+Scientific&rft.date=2017&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1142%2F10750&rft.isbn=978-981-323-153-5&rft.aulast=Douhal&rft.aufirst=Abderrazzak&rft.au=Baskin%2C+John+Spencer&rft.au=Zhong%2C+Dongping&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAhmed+Zewail" class="Z3988"></li></ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(9)"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Ahmed_Zewail&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: See also" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-9 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-9"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Zewail_City_of_Science_and_Technology" class="mw-redirect" title="Zewail City of Science and Technology">Zewail City of Science and Technology</a> (ZCST) <ul><li>Ahmed founded ZCST and even donated his entire Nobel prize money in order to establish this university. Due to his need of wanting help Egypt to excel and advance academically the first batch of students were exempted from fees due to their scientific brilliance.<a href="#cite_note-editor-45">[45]</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Egyptian_scientists" title="List of Egyptian scientists">List of Egyptian scientists</a></li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(10)"><h2 id="References">References</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Ahmed_Zewail&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: References" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-10 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-10"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-autobio-1">^ <a href="#cite_ref-autobio_1-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-autobio_1-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-autobio_1-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-autobio_1-3">d</a> <a href="#cite_ref-autobio_1-4">e</a> <a href="#cite_ref-autobio_1-5">f</a> <a href="#cite_ref-autobio_1-6">g</a> <a href="#cite_ref-autobio_1-7">h</a> <a href="#cite_ref-autobio_1-8">i</a> <a href="#cite_ref-autobio_1-9">j</a> <a href="#cite_ref-autobio_1-10">k</a> <a href="#cite_ref-autobio_1-11">l</a> <a href="#cite_ref-autobio_1-12">m</a> <a href="#cite_ref-autobio_1-13">n</a> <a href="#cite_ref-autobio_1-14">o</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFZewail,_Ahmed" class="citation web cs1">Zewail, Ahmed. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111008202711/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1999/zewail-autobio.html">"Autobiography"</a>. 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href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A6_%E0%A6%9C%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%93%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%B2" title="আহমেদ জেওয়াইল – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="আহমেদ জেওয়াইল" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target">বাংলা</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Zewail" title="Ahmed Zewail – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Ahmed Zewail" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target">閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%85%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%B4_%D0%97%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BB" title="Ахмед Зевейл – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Ахмед Зевейл" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%85%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%B4_%D0%97%D0%B5%D1%83%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BB" title="Ахмед Зеуаил – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Ахмед Зеуаил" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Hassan_Zewail" title="Ahmed Hassan Zewail – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Ahmed Hassan Zewail" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Zewail" title="Ahmed Zewail – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Ahmed Zewail" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Zewail" title="Ahmed Zewail – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Ahmed Zewail" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Zewail" title="Ahmed Zewail – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Ahmed Zewail" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_H._Zewail" title="Ahmed H. Zewail – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Ahmed H. Zewail" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_H._Zewail" title="Ahmed H. Zewail – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Ahmed H. Zewail" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Zewail" title="Ahmed Zewail – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Ahmed Zewail" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%AD%D8%B3%D9%86_%D8%B2%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84" title="احمد حسن زویل – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="احمد حسن زویل" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Zewail" title="Ahmed Zewail – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Ahmed Zewail" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Zewail" title="Ahmed Zewail – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Ahmed Zewail" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gaeilge</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_H._Zewail" title="Ahmed H. Zewail – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="Ahmed H. Zewail" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gàidhlig</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_H._Zewail" title="Ahmed H. Zewail – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Ahmed H. Zewail" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target">Galego</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hak mw-list-item"><a href="https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Zewail" title="Ahmed Zewail – Hakka Chinese" lang="hak" hreflang="hak" data-title="Ahmed Zewail" data-language-autonym="客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî" data-language-local-name="Hakka Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target">客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%84%EB%A9%94%EB%93%9C_%EC%A6%88%EC%9B%A8%EC%9D%BC" title="아메드 즈웨일 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="아메드 즈웨일" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ha mw-list-item"><a href="https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Zewail" title="Ahmed Zewail – Hausa" lang="ha" hreflang="ha" data-title="Ahmed Zewail" data-language-autonym="Hausa" data-language-local-name="Hausa" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hausa</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B1%D5%B0%D5%B4%D5%A1%D5%A4_%D4%B6%D5%A1%D5%BE%D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%AC" title="Ահմադ Զավայլ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Ահմադ Զավայլ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Հայերեն</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A6_%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%B2" title="अहमद जेवेइल – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="अहमद जेवेइल" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target">हिन्दी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_H._Zewail" title="Ahmed H. Zewail – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Ahmed H. Zewail" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hrvatski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Zewail" title="Ahmed Zewail – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Ahmed Zewail" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ido</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Zewail" title="Ahmed Zewail – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Ahmed Zewail" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Zewail" title="Ahmed Zewail – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Ahmed Zewail" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%97%D7%9E%D7%93_%D7%96%D7%95%D7%95%D7%99%D7%9C" title="אחמד זוויל – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="אחמד זוויל" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%90%E1%83%B0%E1%83%9B%E1%83%94%E1%83%93_%E1%83%96%E1%83%94%E1%83%95%E1%83%94%E1%83%98%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98" title="აჰმედ ზევეილი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="აჰმედ ზევეილი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target">ქართული</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ks mw-list-item"><a href="https://ks.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%B2%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84" title="احمد زیویل – Kashmiri" lang="ks" hreflang="ks" data-title="احمد زیویل" data-language-autonym="कॉशुर / کٲشُر" data-language-local-name="Kashmiri" class="interlanguage-link-target">कॉशुर / کٲشُر</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Zewail" title="Ahmed Zewail – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Ahmed Zewail" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kiswahili</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehmed_Zewail" title="Ehmed Zewail – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Ehmed Zewail" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kurdî</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmedus_Zewail" title="Ahmedus Zewail – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Ahmedus Zewail" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Zewail" title="Ahmed Zewail – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Ahmed Zewail" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%85%E0%B4%B9%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%86%E0%B4%A6%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%86%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%86%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B2%E0%B5%8D" title="അഹ്മെദ് സെവെയ്ല് – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="അഹ്മെദ് സെവെയ്ല്" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target">മലയാളം</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%90%E1%83%B0%E1%83%9B%E1%83%94%E1%83%93_%E1%83%96%E1%83%94%E1%83%95%E1%83%94%E1%83%98%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98" title="აჰმედ ზევეილი – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="აჰმედ ზევეილი" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target">მარგალური</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%B2%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84" title="احمد زويل – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="احمد زويل" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">مصرى</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%AD%D8%B3%D9%86_%D8%B2%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84" title="احمد حسن زویل – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="احمد حسن زویل" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target">مازِرونی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Zewail" title="Ahmad Zewail – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Ahmad Zewail" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Melayu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Zewail" title="Ahmed Zewail – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Ahmed Zewail" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8F%E3%83%A1%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BA%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB" title="アハメッド・ズウェイル – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="アハメッド・ズウェイル" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Zewail" title="Ahmed Zewail – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Ahmed Zewail" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_H._Zewail" title="Ahmed H. Zewail – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Ahmed H. Zewail" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Occitan</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Zewail" title="Ahmed Zewail – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Ahmed Zewail" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%B2%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%84" title="احمد زیریل – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="احمد زیریل" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target">پنجابی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds mw-list-item"><a href="https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Hassan_Zewail" title="Ahmed Hassan Zewail – Low German" lang="nds" hreflang="nds" data-title="Ahmed Hassan Zewail" data-language-autonym="Plattdüütsch" data-language-local-name="Low German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Plattdüütsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Zewail" title="Ahmed Zewail – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Ahmed Zewail" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Zewail" title="Ahmed Zewail – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Ahmed Zewail" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Zewail" title="Ahmed Zewail – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Ahmed Zewail" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Română</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BB,_%D0%90%D1%85%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%B4" title="Зевейл, Ахмед – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Зевейл, Ахмед" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русский</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-skr mw-list-item"><a href="https://skr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%B2%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%84" title="احمد زیول – Saraiki" lang="skr" hreflang="skr" data-title="احمد زیول" data-language-autonym="سرائیکی" data-language-local-name="Saraiki" class="interlanguage-link-target">سرائیکی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Zewail" title="Ahmed Zewail – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Ahmed Zewail" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target">Simple English</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Hassan_Zewail" title="Ahmed Hassan Zewail – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Ahmed Hassan Zewail" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target">Slovenčina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A6%DB%95%D8%AD%D9%85%DB%95%D8%AF_%D8%B2%D9%88%DB%95%DB%8C%D9%84" title="ئەحمەد زوەیل – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="ئەحمەد زوەیل" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target">کوردی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%85%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%B4_%D0%97%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BB" title="Ахмед Зеваил – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Ахмед Зеваил" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Српски / srpski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-su mw-list-item"><a href="https://su.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_H._Zewail" title="Ahmad H. Zewail – Sundanese" lang="su" hreflang="su" data-title="Ahmad H. Zewail" data-language-autonym="Sunda" data-language-local-name="Sundanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Sunda</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Zewail" title="Ahmed Zewail – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Ahmed Zewail" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Suomi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Zewail" title="Ahmed Zewail – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Ahmed Zewail" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Svenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt mw-list-item"><a href="https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D3%98%D1%85%D0%BC%D3%99%D1%82_%D0%97%D3%99%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BB" title="Әхмәт Зәвил – Tatar" lang="tt" hreflang="tt" data-title="Әхмәт Зәвил" data-language-autonym="Татарча / tatarça" data-language-local-name="Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target">Татарча / tatarça</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Zewail" title="Ahmed Zewail – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Ahmed Zewail" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Türkçe</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%85%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%B4_%D0%A5%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%97%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BB" title="Ахмед Хассан Зевейл – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Ахмед Хассан Зевейл" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Українська</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%B2%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%84" title="احمد زیول – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="احمد زیول" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target">اردو</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Zewail" title="Ahmed Zewail – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Ahmed Zewail" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Tiếng Việt</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-wuu mw-list-item"><a href="https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%89%BE%E5%93%88%E8%BF%88%E5%BE%B7%C2%B7%E6%B3%BD%E9%9F%A6%E5%B0%94" title="艾哈迈德·泽韦尔 – Wu" lang="wuu" hreflang="wuu" data-title="艾哈迈德·泽韦尔" data-language-autonym="吴语" data-language-local-name="Wu" class="interlanguage-link-target">吴语</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-yo mw-list-item"><a href="https://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Zewail" title="Ahmed Zewail – Yoruba" lang="yo" hreflang="yo" data-title="Ahmed Zewail" data-language-autonym="Yorùbá" data-language-local-name="Yoruba" class="interlanguage-link-target">Yorùbá</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BA%9E%E7%B1%B3%E5%BE%B7%C2%B7%E9%BD%8A%E5%A8%81%E7%88%BE" title="亞米德·齊威爾 – Chinese" lang="zh" hreflang="zh" data-title="亞米德·齊威爾" data-language-autonym="中文" data-language-local-name="Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target">中文</a></li></ul> </section> </div> <div class="minerva-footer-logo"><img src="/static/images/mobile/copyright/wikipedia-wordmark-en.svg" alt="Wikipedia" width="120" height="18" style="width: 7.5em; 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