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Authorised form of nameZewail; Ahmed Hassan (1946 - 2016)
Dates1946 - 2016
NationalityAmerican
Place of birthEgypt
Date of birth26/02/1946
Date of death02/08/2016
ActivityFounder of Femtology
Career:
Linus Pauling Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology, USA
Medals and prizes:
Nobel Prize (Chemistry) 1999
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election10/05/2001
Age at election55
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Davy Medal 2011 (A side)
SourceReferences:
W Sibbett, 'Pioneering the femtoworld of molecules. Voyage through time, by A Zewail' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 392-395
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/95254701
CodeNA6895
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/2001/48Zewail, Ahmed Hassan : certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/005051Zewail, Ahmed Hassan2002
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