Ahmed Zewail

Ahmed Zewail
ON OME
Ahmed Zewail ON OME
أحمد زويل
	Zewail in 2010
Born	Ahmed Hassan Zewail; February 26, 1946; Damanhur, Egypt
Died	August 2, 2016 (aged 70); Pasadena, California, U.S.
Resting place	6th of October, Giza, Egypt
Nationality	Egyptian
Citizenship	Egypt ; United States (naturalized)
Alma mater	University of Alexandria (B.S., M.S.); University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D.);
Known for	Femtochemistry
Awards	King Faisal International Prize for Science (1989); Wolf Prize (Chemistry) (1993); Order of Merit (1995); Peter Debye Award (1996); Tolman Award (1997); E. Bright Wilson Award (1997); E. O. Lawrence Award (1998); The Franklin Medal (United States) (1998); Paul Karrer Gold Medal (1998); Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1999); Order of the Nile (1999); ForMemRS (2001); Albert Einstein World Award of Science (2006); Othmer Gold Medal (2009); Priestley Medal (2011); Davy Medal (2011);
	Scientific career
Fields	Femtochemistry;
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley; California Institute of Technology; Zewail City of Science, Technology and Innovation; Tohoku University;
Thesis	Optical and magnetic resonance spectra of triplet excitons and localized states in molecular crystals (1975)
Doctoral advisor	Robin M. Hochstrasser

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.