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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.

Ahmed Zewail

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.
AHMED ZEWAIL

Academic Adviser Class Friend Made People Senior University Women
I thought in my Nobel Lecture I pointed that I was delighted that the Swedish Academy of Science did not quote anything about my current work right now, because the current work that my group is focusing on is actually both the time resolve.
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If you like, there is a Guinness time. The reason for that it’s fundamental. It is not that we have to keep shortening the time. It turns out all molecular and biological systems have speeds of the atoms move inside them.
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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 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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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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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 came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.
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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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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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I don’t know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels.
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I do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.
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Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.
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There are many, many books I’ve read and I think this is quite naïve actually because we all just try to uncover something.
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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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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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