Back أحمد زويل Arabic احمد زويل ARZ Əhməd Zevayl Azerbaijani احمد حسن زویل AZB Ахмед Зевейл Byelorussian Ахмед Зеуаил Bulgarian আহমেদ জেওয়াইল Bengali/Bangla Ahmed Hassan Zewail Catalan ئەحمەد زوەیل CKB Ahmed Zewail Czech
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| Born | Ahmed Hassan Zewail February 26, 1946 |
| Died | August 2, 2016 (aged 70) Pasadena, California, U.S. |
| Nationality |  Egyptian |
| Citizenship |  United States (naturalized)[3] |
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| Known for | Femtochemistry |
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| 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 and American chemist,[4] known as the "father of femtochemistry".[5] 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,[4] and the second African to win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was the Linus Pauling Chair Professor of Chemistry, a professor of physics, and the director of the Physical Biology Center for Ultrafast Science and Technology at the California Institute of Technology.
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