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Think about the whole world of biological complex sciences. We still don’t understand the way a protein folds the way it does.

Ahmed Zewail

Scientists contribute in a variety of ways and I don’t think I can singular one even including [Albert] Einstein, that I can say that he’s the best.
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Think about the whole world of biological complex sciences. We still don’t understand the way a protein folds the way it does.
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I built on the efforts of a previous scientist, others will build on the work I’m doing and if I look at the whole scope from chemistry to biology to physics, it’s just the list is too long to mention just one and it’s not fair to the others.
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I think the Nobel Prize helps for a number of reasons. Number one, if I can be frank, there is these people will feel by getting a Nobel Prize that I’m one of them, that it is possible to contribute on the world map of science and technology.
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Women made up nearly half my class at university, and my senior academic adviser there was a woman. In Alexandria, my friends were Christians and Muslims.
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I do feel quite strongly about this that probably one of the things that unfortunately this age now to get a Nobel Prize is to really use part of it to help the young people get excited about science.
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I want to really focus on doing this two things I really would like to focus on science and the excitement of science and to help with science.
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Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.
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I found with my students they don’t necessarily look at journals any more, but they print right away from the internet what’s relevant to what’s he doing you see.
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When they called me with the Nobel call from Secretary General of the Swedish Academy it was twenty minutes to six and he said well that was well hope I’m not disturbing you but I am the Secretary General of the Swedish Academy.
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The fastest possible speeds are determined by their molecular vibrations and this speeds is about a kilometre per second.
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When I was a child, I thought of my Delta town as the center of the universe, but now I realize how little I know about the universe.
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Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.
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We don’t work like the best basketball player and the best musician and so on. Science is a collective effort.
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Syria is the proud heir of an ancient civilization that has a unique spectrum of minorities that encompasses Muslims and Christians of various denominations. There are at least ten such ethnic and religious groups.
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So, I’m an old fashioned still in this regard but these are the moment where I really can be creative, if I am, to be left alone with just a book and piece of paper and to be thinking.
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