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Date of Birth
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26-February-1946
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Place of Birth
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Damanhur
(Egypt, Beheira Governorate)
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Nationality
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United States of America, Egypt
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Also know as
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Ahmed Hassan Zewail, Ahmed H. Zewail
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Profession
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Chemist, Professor, Scientist, Researcher
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Ahmed Hassan Zewail is an Egyptian scientist, known as the "father of femtochemistry", he won the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry and became the first Egyptian scientist who won Nobel Prize in a scientific field. He is the Linus Pauling Chair Professor Chemistry, Professor of Physics and the director of the Physical Biology Centre for the Ultrafast Science and Technology at the California Institute of Technology.
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