| Ahmed H. Zewail  AKA Ahmed Hassan Zewail
Born: 26-Feb-1946
Birthplace: Damanhur, Egypt
Died: 2-Aug-2016
Location of death: Pasadena, CA
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Religion: Muslim
Race or Ethnicity: Middle Eastern
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Chemist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Femtochemistry Egyptian-American chemist Ahmed H. Zewail developed a new way of using ultra-short pulsing laser flashes to observe and isolate chemical reactions down to the femtosecond (one quadrillionth of a second). His pioneering methodology, called femtochemistry, has revealed previously unknown aspects of the transition states of chemical reactions, and brought Zewail the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1999. He has also studied 4D electron microscopy. Father: Hassan Zewail (d. 22-Oct-1992)
Wife: Dema Faham (physician, m. 1989, two daughters, two sons)
Daughter: Maha
Daughter: Amani
Son: Nabeel
Son: Hani
University: BS Chemistry, Alexandria University (1967)
University: MS Chemistry, Alexandria University (1969)
University: PhD Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania (1974)
Fellow: University of California at Berkeley (1974-76)
Teacher: Chemistry, California Institute of Technology (1976-78)
Professor: Chemistry, California Institute of Technology (1976-90)
Professor: Linus Pauling Chair Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology (1990-)
Administrator: Physical Biology Center for Ultrafast Science & Technology, Cal Tech (2005-)
ACS Buck-Whitney Medal 1985
Guggenheim Fellowship 1987
ACS Harrison Howe Award 1989
King Faisal International Prize in Science 1989
APS Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy 1993
Wolf Prize in Chemistry 1993
APS Herbert P. Broida Prize 1995
Egyptian Order of Merit 1995
ACS John Gamble Kirkwood Medal 1996
Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry 1996
ACS Linus Pauling Medal 1997
Welch Award in Chemistry 1997
Benjamin Franklin Medal 1998 (Franklin Institute)
E. O. Lawrence Award 1998
ACS Richard Tolman Medal 1998
ACS William H. Nichols Medal 1998
Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1999
Order of the Grand Collar of the Nile 1999
Lebanon Order of Cedar 2000
UAE Order of Zayed 2000
ACS Gennady Michael Kosolapoff Award 2002
WCC Albert Einstein World Award of Science 2006
CHF Othmer Gold Medal 2009
Priestley Medal 2011
Royal Dutch Shell Undergraduate Trainee (1966)
Academy of Achievement 2000
Academy of Sciences for the Developing World 1989
African Academy of Sciences Foreign Member, 2002
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, 1978-82
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1993
American Association for the Advancement of Science 2000
American Chemical Society 2010
American Philosophical Society 1998
American Physical Society 1982
Chinese Academy of Sciences Foreign Member, 2009
European Academy of Arts, Sciences, and Humanities 1994
French Academy of Sciences Foreign Member, 2005
Indian Chemical Society Foreign Member, 2001
Indian National Science Academy Foreign Member, 2002
Korean Academy of Science and Technology Foreign Member, 2002
National Academy of Sciences 1989
National Science Foundation Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, 1996-2007
Pontifical Academy of Sciences 2000
Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters Foreign Member, 2000
Royal Society Foreign Member, 2001
Royal Society of Chemistry Foreign Member, 2003
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Foreign Member, 2003
Russian Academy of Sciences Foreign Member, 2003
Science Debate 2008
Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society 1992
Egyptian Ancestry
Naturalized US Citizen 1982
Official Website:
http://www.zewail.caltech.edu/
Author of books:
Femtochemistry: Ultrafast Dynamics of the Chemical Bond (1994, two volumes)
Physical Biology: From Atoms to Medicine (2008)
4D Electron Microscopy: Imaging in Space and Time (2009, with John M. Thomas)
Voyage through Time: Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize (2002, memoir)
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