IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY: AHMED ZEWAIL - PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR

The third of three immigrants on the the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology is Egyptian-born Professor Ahmed Zewail, the winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Dr. Zewail is a professor of Chemistry and Physics at Caltech and is the Director of Caltech's Physical Biology Center. Dr. Zewail describes his research as follows:

[The Nobel Prize was awarded for] pioneering developments in femtoscience, which made it possible to observe atoms in motion, the transition states of molecular transformations. This work created the discipline of femtochemistry, which is concerned with molecular reactivity on the femtosecond (10–15 s) timescale. More recently, Dr. Zewail's research group developed four-dimensional (4D) ultrafast electron microscopy, a new development for direct visualizarion of matter in both space and time – the primary goal of the research is to understand the complexity of materials and biological function.

Comments

[Greg Siskind]

Thanks Jenda. I've made the update.

[Jenda]

You left out his country of origin.