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The fastest possible speeds are determined by their molecular vibrations and this speeds is about a kilometre per second.

Ahmed Zewail

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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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 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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I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.
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Of course you can imagine I was frozen in time when he said that but then he made a very famous statement, something to the effect that this is the last 20 minutes of peace of your life.
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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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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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We still don’t understand how the big bang and evolving all the way to the human species and so on. So all of this is going to be a very, very exciting to the new people.
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For me to sit down here, even as a Nobel Laureate and make a prediction about which science I think that will be a mistake.
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So, that’s my intention to focus my efforts there and I hope I will be able to do so.
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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 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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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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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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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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One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.
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