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 ZEWAILWomen 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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You should have some time to think and that’s very important.
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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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So, that’s my intention to focus my efforts there and I hope I will be able to do so.
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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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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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And the other thing also which I’m hoping for is that the government in Egypt is willing and interested in promoting science and technology and this is an ideal time now to be able to do something.
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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 came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.
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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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Although the Nasser revolution of 1952 was secular, the culture remained deeply religious – but it was a faith of moderation and tolerance.
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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 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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Perhaps the most valuable thing he taught me (his father) was that there is no contradiction between devotion to work and enjoyment of life and people
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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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