Ahmed Hassan Zewail:
Ahmed Hassan Zewail is an Egyptian-American chemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
February 26, 1946 in Damanhour, Egypt
Claim to Fame:
Zewail is an Egyptian-American chemist who was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his studies using ultrafast lasers to determine the dynamics of chemical bonding on the femtosecond level. (1 femtosecond is 10-15 second). His technique would pulse ultrafast bursts of coherent light that allowed him to illustrate the transitions of atoms or molecules during a chemical reaction.
