What did Dr Ahmed H Zewail do?

Zewail, in full Ahmed Hassan Zewail, (born February 26, 1946, Damanhur, Egypt—died August 2, 2016, Pasadena, California, U.S.), Egyptian-born chemist who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1999 for developing a rapid laser technique that enabled scientists to study the action of atoms during chemical reactions.

Where is Ahmed Zewail from?

Damanhour, Egypt
Ahmed Zewail/Place of birth

What did Ahmed Zewail discover?

Ahmed Zewail will forever be remembered for three main reasons: first, he was the individual who first demonstrated that the structure and dynamics of atoms in the transition state of chemical reactions could be determined through the judicious use of ultrafast lasers, in a field that he pioneered, for which he coined.

When did Ahmed Zewail born?

February 26, 1946
Ahmed Zewail/Date of birth

How old is Ahmed Zewail?

70 years (1946–2016)
Ahmed Zewail/Age at death

Who discovered femtosecond?

Ahmed Zewail
In the late 1980s Ahmed Zewail developed methods for studying chemical reactions in detail. By using laser technology to produce flashes of light just a few femtoseconds long, reactions can be mapped.

What other international awards Ahmed Zewail has received?

Ahmed Zewail

• King Faisal International Prize (Saudi Arabia) (1989)
• Peter Debye Award (1996)
• E. Bright Wilson Award (1997)
• Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1999)
• Order of the Nile (1999)
• E. O. Lawrence Award (1998)
• The Franklin Medal (United States) (1998)
• Paul Karrer Gold Medal (1998)

Who discovered the femtosecond?

Why did Ahmed Zewail win the Nobel Prize?

“Ahmed Zewail was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for showing that it is possible with rapid laser technique to study in slow motion how atoms in a molecule move during a chemical reaction,” The prize’s Twitter feed said. Zewail was the first Arab to win a Nobel Prize in a science category.

Who invented the femtosecond?

inventor Ahmed Zewail
Nobel Prize commemorates laureate, femtosecond flash inventor Ahmed Zewail. CAIRO – 3 August 2020: On his fourth anniversary of death, Nobel Prize commemorated Sunday the life of late scientist and laureate Ahmed Zewail on its Facebook page highlighting his achievements and contributions to human knowledge.

Who is the father of Femtochemistry?

chemist Ahmed Zewail
Egyptian–US chemist Ahmed Zewail, the ‘father of femtochemistry’ who received the chemistry Nobel prize in 1999 for his work using ultrafast lasers to study chemical reactions, has died aged 70.

What is the meaning of femtosecond?

one quadrillionth of a second
: one quadrillionth of a second.