Ahmed Hassan Zewail (February 26, 1946 – August 2, 2016) was an
Egyptian-American scientist, 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 to win a Nobel Prize in a scientific field. He was the
Linus Pauling Chair Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Physics, and the
director of the Physical Biology Center for Ultrafast Science and Technology at
the California Institute of Technology. (Quoted from Wikipedia.org)
