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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.

Ahmed Zewail

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.
AHMED ZEWAIL

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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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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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The fastest possible speeds are determined by their molecular vibrations and this speeds is about a kilometre per second.
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Determine Fastest Kilometre Molecular Possible Second Speed
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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One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.
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I do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.
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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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I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.
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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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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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Everybody thinks some times that science is done as a master plan and that somebody like me came from Mars and figured out everything and so on, but that’s really not the way it worked.
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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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Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.
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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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