Winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, he is shown here wearing the Othmer Gold Medal of the Chemical Heritage Foundation, which he received on 14 May 2009 (Wikimedia Commons, Chemical Heritage Foundation)
“On the banks of the Nile, the Rosetta branch, I lived an enjoyable childhood in the City of Disuq, which is the home of the famous mosque, Sidi Ibrahim.”
“Let me put it this way: There is nothing in Islam that is fundamentally against the quest for knowledge.”
Ahmed Zewail Square, in Disuq, Egypt
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