Ahmed Zewail
Ahmed Hassan Zewail ( Arabic أحمد حسن زويل, DMG Aḥmad Ḥasan Zuwail ; Also transcribed: Sewail; * February 26, 1946 in Damanhur ; † August 2, 2016 in Pasadena , California ) was an Egyptian chemist and Nobel Prize winner for work in femtochemistry .
Life
Zewail grew up in Disuq in northern Egypt. He studied at the University of Alexandria ( bachelor's degree) and received his doctorate under Robin Hochstrasser at the University of Pennsylvania . He was a post-doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley . From 1976 he worked at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he became professor, from 1990 as Linus Pauling Professor in Chemical Physics . In 1978 he received a research grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellowship ).
Zewail was a pioneer of femtochemistry, the study of chemical reactions in the femtosecond range with ultra-short laser pulses.
In January 2010 Ahmed Zewail, Elias Zerhouni, and Bruce Alberts became the first US science envoys for Islam. In this role he traveled to countries with a majority Muslim population.
Zewail served on President Barack Obama's Scientific Advisory Board .
Zewail had US citizenship from 1982 . He was married and had four children.
Awards (selection)
- 1992: Carl Zeiss Research Award
- 1993: Wolf Prize in Chemistry
- 1997: Tolman Award
- 1997: Robert A. Welch Award
- 1998: Benjamin Franklin Medal
- 1998: Paul Karrer Medal
- 1999: Nile Order (highest civil Egyptian honor)
- 1999: Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 2000: Cedar North
- 2006: Albert Einstein World Award of Science
- 2009: Othmer gold medal
- 2011: Priestley Medal
- 2011: Davy Medal
- 2013: Richard Ernst Medal from ETH Zurich
Zewail was a member of the National Academy of Sciences (from 1989), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (from 1993), the American Philosophical Society (from 1998), the Royal Society (from 2001), the Académie des sciences (from 2005), the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Sciences and multiple honorary doctorates ( Lund , Complutense University Madrid , Cambridge , Southwestern University , University of Jordan , Yale University .)
death
Zewail died around the morning of August 2, 2016. He recovered from cancer, but the exact cause of death is unknown.
Fonts
- Ahmed H. Zewail: Journey through Time - Path to the Nobel Prize. Verlag Helvetica Chimica Acta, Zurich 2006, ISBN 978-3-906390-32-1 , ISBN 3-906390-32-2 .
literature
- Peter B. Dervan : Ahmed H. Zewail (1946-2016). In: Science . Volume 353, No. 6304, 2016, p. 1103, doi: 10.1126 / science.aai8466
- Warren S. Warren: Ahmed Hassan Zewail (1946-2016). In: Nature . Volume 537, No. 7619, 2016, p. 168, doi: 10.1038 / 537168a , full text
Web links
- Literature by and about Ahmed Zewail in the catalog of the German National Library
- Information from the Nobel Foundation on the 1999 award to Ahmed Zewail (English) and press release (German)
- Homepage of Ahmed Zewail at Caltech
- Ahmed Zewail in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Individual evidence
- ↑ احمد زويل وفاته Ahmed Zewail وفاة احمد زويل مكتشف الفيمتو ثانية صور احمد زويل قبل الوفاة في امريكا Ahmed Zewail death ( memento of 2 August 2016 Web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Cheryl Pellerin: First US Science Envoys Begin Work in Muslim Majority Countries. In: usembassy.gov. Bureau of International Information Programs, accessed August 3, 2016 .
- ↑ Biographies of the 2014 honorands at Yale University (yale.edu); Retrieved June 9, 2014.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Zewail, Ahmed |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zewail, Ahmed Hassan (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Egyptian-American chemist, Nobel Laureate (1999) |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1946 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Damanhur |
DATE OF DEATH | 2nd August 2016 |
Place of death | Pasadena , California |