What is Ahmed Zewail?
{{Infobox scientist | name = Ahmed Zewail | native_name = '''أحمد حسن زويل''' | native_name_lang = ar | image = Ahmed Zewail HD2009 Othmer Gold Medal portrait.JPG | image_size = 230px | caption = Ahmed Zewail in 2009 | birth_name = Ahmed Hassan Zewail | birth_date = {{birth date|mf=yes|1946|2|26}} | birth_place = [[Damanhour]], Egypt | death_date = {{death date and age|2016|8|2|1946|2|26|mf=y}} | death_place = [[Pasadena, California]], U.S. | nationality = Egyptian<br />American | alma_mater = {{Plainlist| * {{nowrap|[[University of Alexandria]] <small>(B.S., M.S.)</small>}} * [[University of Pennsylvania]] <small>(Ph.D.)</small>}} | thesis_title = Optical and magnetic resonance spectra of triplet excitons and localized states in molecular crystals | thesis_url = http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54507972 | thesis_year = 1975 | known_for = [[Femtochemistry]] | website = {{URL|http://www.zewail.caltech.edu}} | field = {{Plainlist| * [[Chemistry]] * [[Physics]]}} | students = | work_institutions = {{Plainlist| * [[California Institute of Technology]] * [[University of California, Berkeley]]}} | prizes = {{Plainlist| * [[King Faisal International Prize]] (Saudi Arabia) (1989) * [[Peter Debye Award]] (1996) * [[E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy|E. Bright Wilson Award]] (1997) * [[Nobel Prize for Chemistry]] (1999) * [[Order of the Nile]] (1999) * [[Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award|E. O. Lawrence Award]] (1998) * [[The Franklin Institute Awards|The Franklin Medal]] (United States) (1998) * [[Paul Karrer Gold Medal]] (1998) * [[Tolman Award]] (1997) * [[Wolf Prize]] (Chemistry) (1993) * [[Fellow of the Royal Society|ForMemRS]] (2001) * [[Albert Einstein World Award of Science]] (2006) * [[Othmer Gold Medal]] (2009) * [[Priestley Medal]] (2011) * [[Davy Medal]] (2011)}} }} '''Ahmed Zewail''' (1946-2016) was an [[Egyptians|Egyptian]] chemist. He invented [[femtochemistry]] and won the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] for 1999. [[Chemical reaction]]s were once thou