Ahmed Zewail
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1999for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy
- Citizenship
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United States 
Egypt - Languages
- English, Arabic
- date of birth
- 2/26/1946
- place of birth
- Damanhur
- date of death
- 8/2/2016
- place of death
- Pasadena
- Lived
- 70 years
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- educated at
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- University of Pennsylvania
- academic major: chemistry
- academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
- start time: 1969
- end time: 1974
- Alexandria University
- academic degree: bachelor's degree
- academic degree: master's degree
- University of Pennsylvania
- member of
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- American Physical Society
- start time: 1982
- The World Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1989
- National Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1989
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- start time: 1993
- American Philosophical Society
- start time: 1998
- Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
- start time: 2000
- Royal Society of London
- start time: 2001
- Pontifical Academy of Sciences
- start time: 9/3/1999
- Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten
- start time: 2003
- Russian Academy of Sciences
- start time: 5/22/2003
- French Academy of Sciences
- start time: 6/21/2005
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- start time: 2009
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Indian National Science Academy
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- American Physical Society
- field of work
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- chemistry
- occupation
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- inventor
- physicist
- chemist
- university teacher
- employer
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- California Institute of Technology