Nobel prize winning scientist Ahmed Zewail dies at age of 70
Egyptian Nobel Prize winner Dr Ahmed Zewail died on Tuesday at the age of 70 in the United States, reportedly due to unspecified health complications.
A citizen of both Egypt and the United States, Zewail is an internationally renowned and influential scientist, and is often referred to as being the ''father of femtochemistry," a field of ultra precise chemistry for which he won a Nobel Prize in 1999.
According to the official website of the Nobel Prize, Zewail was awarded the prize for chemistry as a result of "his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy."
In April 2009, Barack Obama announced that Zewail would be an advisor in the US Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
In September 2014, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi similarly announced the establishment of the Advisory Council of Egypt's Scientists and Experts, which included Zewail.
Zewail was born in the Nile Delta city of Damanhour in 1946. He leaves behind a wife and four children.
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