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AHMED ZEWAILThink 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 am not one of the new media experts working all the time with my computers and the PowerPoint’s and things of that sort.
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I do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.
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Electrons and possibly x-rays to be able to get the architecture of these molecules, the molecular structures themselves, of very complex biological systems. That’s the ultimate goal.
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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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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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When I give a lecture on Egypt there are thousands of people in the lecture hall, so obviously they would like to go to science and they would love to do science, but you really have to get the correct science base in order for them to interact.
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There is a danger one has to really be knowing much more because you can’t be too narrow on science.
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I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.
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You should have some time to think and that’s very important.
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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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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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The fastest possible speeds are determined by their molecular vibrations and this speeds is about a kilometre per second.
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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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But the universe at large is full of questions that we still don’t know anything about and there will be always young people brilliant who are going to make new discoveries.
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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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