{"id":35721,"date":"2016-08-08T22:11:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T04:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=35721"},"modified":"2016-08-08T22:13:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T04:13:08","slug":"from-a-great-chemist-who-died-just-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/08\/from-a-great-chemist-who-died-just-last-week.html","title":{"rendered":"From a great chemist who died just last week"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_35723\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35723\" style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/08\/Ahmed_Zewail_HD2009_Othmer_Gold_Medal_portrait.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35723\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-35723\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/08\/Ahmed_Zewail_HD2009_Othmer_Gold_Medal_portrait.jpg\" alt=\"Ahmed Zewail, wearing the Othmer Gold Medal\" width=\"595\" height=\"810\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35723\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ahmed Zewail (26 February 1946 \u2013 2 August 2016), of Caltech<br>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\u00a0(Wikimedia Commons, Chemical Heritage Foundation)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201cOn 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.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201cLet me put it this way: There is nothing in Islam that is fundamentally against the quest for knowledge.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_35722\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35722\" style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/08\/Ahmed_Zewail_Square-Desouk.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35722\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-35722\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/08\/Ahmed_Zewail_Square-Desouk.jpg\" alt=\"Wikimedia Commons Disuq Ahmed Zewail Square\" width=\"595\" height=\"333\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35722\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u0645\u064a\u062f\u0627\u0646 \u0627\u062d\u0645\u062f \u0632\u0648\u064a\u0644 \u0628\u0645\u062f\u064a\u0646\u0629 \u062f\u0633\u0648\u0642\u060c \u0645\u0635\u0631<br>Ahmed Zewail Square, in Disuq, Egypt<br>(Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cOn 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.\u201d \u00a0 \u201cLet me put it this way: There is nothing in Islam that is fundamentally against the quest for knowledge.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>From a great chemist who died just last week<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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