Ahmed Zewail Quotes


Higher education should be based on quality, not quantity; receive merit-based funding; and be free of unnecessary bureaucracy. Not the least of the benefits of educational reform is to foster the pride of achievement at national and international levels.


Citations

Zewail, Ahmed. Reflections on World Affairs: Peace and Politics. Imperial College Press, 2015.

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Ahmed Zewail
Ahmed Zewail
  • Born: February 26, 1946
  • Died: August 2, 2016
  • Nationality: Egyptian, American
  • Profession: Scientist

Ahmed Hassan Zewail was an Egyptian-American chemist, 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.