Ahmed Zewail’s Nobel prize and other possessions donated to Egyptian museum

Several key possessions of the late chemistry Nobel laureate Ahmed Zewail – including his Nobel prize plaque and medal, as well as a replica of his famed femtosecond chemistry instrument – will be donated to the Ahmed Zewail Museum. The museum is currently under development in the Zewail City of Science and Technology and Innovation in Giza, Egypt. Zewail was born in Egypt and used the ultra-fast laser machine for his seminal studies in femtosecond spectroscopy to study chemical reactions, which earned him the chemistry Nobel prize in 1999.