AHMED HASSAN ZEWAIL

AHMED HASSAN ZEWAIL

د.أحمد حسن زويل


Upbringing and education:
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- Ahmed H. Zewail was born in 1946 in Damanhur, and then moved with his family to the city of Desouk in the province of Kafr el-Sheikh where he grew up and received his basic education.

- He joined the Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, after receiving a high school and earned a Bachelor of Science summa cum laude in 1967 majoring in chemistry and worked as a lecturer college and then got a master's degree for research in the field of light.

- Traveled to the United States in scientific scholarship and received his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in the science of laser .. Then worked as a researcher at the University of California (1974 1976) and then moved on to work at the University of "Caltech", one of the largest scientific universities in America.

- Included in the study of scientific positions within the University, "Caltech" to become the chair of the chemistry, the highest position of a scientific university in America, the American successor to the world, "Linus Pauling", which won the Nobel Prize twice, first in chemistry and the second in peace.

- Published more than 350 papers in scientific journals such as the world's leading magazine and Science magazine Nature.

- A visiting distinguished professor in more than 10 universities in the world along with the American University in Cairo.

- Hundreds of scientific lectures in all parts of the world, and his name appears in the list of honor in the United States of America, which includes the most important figures who contributed to the renaissance of America and was named No. 18 of the 29 figure as the most important scholars of the laser in the United States (This list includes Einstein, Graham Bell).




Accomplishments:
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- longer. Ahmed Zewail, a chemical and an Egyptian scientist won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1999 for inventin imaging system is extremely fast works by using laser has the ability to monitor the movement of particles as they arise and when docking to each other and the time unit that picks up where the image is of femto-seconds is part of a million billionth of a second , has helped to identify many diseases as rapidly as it has many patents for many of the scientific instruments.

- Published more than 350 papers in scientific journals such as the world's leading magazine and Science magazine
Nature.

- A visiting distinguished professor in more than 10 universities in the world along with the American University in Cairo.

- A visiting distinguished professor in more than 10 universities in the world along with the American University in Cairo.

- Hundreds of scientific lectures in all parts of the world, and his name appears in the list of honor in the United States o America, which includes the most important figures who contributed to the renaissance of America and was named No. 18 of the 29 figure as the most important scholars of the laser in the United States (This list includes Einstein, Graham Bell).





Nobel Prize:
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On Tuesday, October 21 1999 got Ahmed Zewail, the Nobel Prize for Chemistry to become the first world of Egyptian and Arab to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of Fmto again and enter the whole world in a new era were not human expect to comprehend it to be able to control the movement of atoms in molecules during chemical reaction by rapid laser technology. Has expressed the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has been honoring d. Zewail as a result of the enormous revolution in the chemical sciences through the pioneering research in the field of chemical reactions and the use of lasers, where a research d. Zewail birth to the so-called chemistry Alfmto seconds and the use of high-speed cameras to monitor chemical reactions quickly Alfmto seconds. Have confirmed the merits of the Swedish Academy awarded the prize to Ahmed Zewail said that this discovery has caused a revolution in chemistry and related sciences, as the research carried out by allowing us to understand and predict interactions that task.


Awards and honors:
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Dr. Ahmed Zewail won many accolades and medals and international awards for pioneering research in laser science and knowledge "femtosecond" because of who won 31 international awards, including:

Dr. Ahmed Zewail won many accolades and medals and international awards for pioneering research in laser science and knowledge "femtosecond" because of who won 31 international awards, including:

• "Max Planck", a first in Germany • "Welch" America • "Haryon Howe's" America • King Faisal International Prize in Science • Award Hoechst German • Elected member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of America • Medal Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Netherlands • Excellence Award on behalf of Leonardo Da Vinci, • received an honorary doctorate from the University of Oxford in England and the American University in Cairo and Alexandria University • Award Alexander von Hambolden of West Germany's largest scientific prize there • Bak, Tine Award from New York.

Excellence Award on behalf of Leonardo Da Vinci, • received an honorary doctorate from the University of Oxford in England and the American University in Cairo and Alexandria University • Award Alexander von Hambolden of West Germany's largest scientific prize there • Bak, Tine Award from New York.

• King Faisal Prize in Science and Physics in 1989. • Prize in Chemistry in 1993. • Benjamin Franklin Award in 1998 for his work in the study of chemical reaction at the time of micro (Femto-Second) called femtochemistry. • Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his achievements in the same area in 1999. • Elected by the Pontifical Academy, to become a member and get on Samaa golden year 2000. • Award and the U.S. Department of Energy's annual Chemistry.

• Award and the U.S. Department of Energy's annual Chemistry.

• "Kars" from the University of Zurich, in chemistry and nature, the largest scientific prize Swiss. • unanimously elected a member of the American Academy of Sciences. • put his name in the list of honor in the United States of America. • Honored by Egypt, where he received several awards, Egypt including the Order of Merit of the first layer of President Hosni Mubarak in 1995, and the Collar of the Nile Great, the highest Egyptian decoration, and gave his name on some streets and squares, as the Authority has issued a mail stamps mail with his name and his image, and was awarded the University of Alexandria, Ph.D. Honorary was his name on the Salon Opera. • In April 2009, the White House announced the choice of d. Ahmed Zewail within the Council of the American adviser to the president for science and technology, and the 20 prominent scientists in a number of areas.



Books:
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Of the books of Dr. Ahmed Zewail:

1. A journey through time .. Road to the Nobel Prize

2. The age of science: it was Asdrah in 2005 and during the year were 11 print edition of it.

3. Time: it was released in 2007

4. Dialogue of Civilizations: the latest books by Dr. Zewail published in Arabic, in the year 2007



Currently:
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Live Professor Zewail is currently in San Marino, California, a professor of Linus Paulng in Physical Chemistry and a professor of physics at Caltech, is married to Ms. Dima Zewail (stoker) is the daughter of the mark Shaker stoker and working as a doctor, was nominated and will participate Professor Zewail of the Board of Advisors presidential About Science and Technology of the White House after being appointed by President Barack Obama. Council will talk about education, science, defense, energy, economy and technology. Was recently appointed as envoy to the United States scientific to the Middle East.


Presidential elections for 2011:
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What about the rumors about the existence of an ambitious politician with a "Dr. Ahmed:" I am a frank man .. I have no political ambition, as I have stressed repeatedly that I want to serve Egypt's valuable science and and I die the world. "