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What the U.S. should do consistently is to support the liberty of the Egyptian people.

~Ahmed Zewail

Topics: Consistently Egyptian Liberty People Should Support

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There is no 'master plan' on the road to the Nobel Prize. It represents a lot of hard work, a passion for that work and... being in the right place at the right time. For me, that place was Caltech.

~Ahmed Zewail

Topics: Being Hard Hard Work Lot Master Master Plan Me Nobel Nobel Prize Passion Place Plan Prize Represents Right Right Place Right Time Road Time Work

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In adapting to life in the melting pot of America, I discovered that the same soft power of science has a huge influence in building bridges between cultures and religions - and has the potential to do so with the Muslim world.

~Ahmed Zewail

Topics: Adapting America Between Bridges Building Cultures Discovered Huge Huge Influence Influence Life Melting Melting Pot Muslim Muslim World Pot Potential Power Religions Same Science Soft World

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When I was a boy in Desuq, Egypt, a city on the Rosetta branch of the Nile, about 50 miles east of Alexandria, my family lived steps away from the local landmark, a mosque named for a 13th-century Sufi sheik.

~Ahmed Zewail

Topics: About Alexandria Away Boy Branch City East Egypt Family Landmark Lived Local Miles Mosque Named Nile Steps

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I left Egypt in 1969 for graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania. I have been on the faculty at Caltech for 37 years and carried dual citizenship for 31. But my commitment to the country of my birth never wavered.

~Ahmed Zewail

Topics: Been Birth Carried Citizenship Commitment Country Dual Egypt Faculty Graduate Graduate School Left Never Pennsylvania School University Years

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As an instructor at Alexandria University, I did research that was published in international journals. Although I left to pursue a doctorate in the United States, it was not for want of a good life.

~Ahmed Zewail

Topics: Alexandria Although Did Doctorate Good Good Life Instructor International Journals Left Life Published Pursue Research States United United States University Want

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In addition to the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, which is crucial to U.S. interests both domestically and in the Middle East, the U.S. has had and will continue to need Egypt's collaboration in the war on terrorism.

~Ahmed Zewail

Topics: Addition Between Both Collaboration Continue Crucial East Egypt Had Interests Israel Middle Middle East Need Peace Terrorism Treaty War Which Will

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The partnership between the United States and Egypt is crucial to both countries, and it can't be predicated on political manipulation and threats of withholding aid.

~Ahmed Zewail

Topics: Aid Between Both Countries Crucial Egypt Manipulation Partnership Political States Threats United United States

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In the 1970s, what I, as a young foreign student studying in the United States, found most dynamic, exciting and impressive about this country is what much of the world continues to value most about the U.S. today: its open intellectual culture, its great universities, its capacity for discovery and innovation.

~Ahmed Zewail

Topics: About Capacity Country Culture Discovery Dynamic Exciting Foreign Found Great Impressive Innovation Intellectual Most Much Open States Student Studying Today United United States Universities Value World Young 1970S

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I discovered how science is truly a universal language, one that forges new connections among individuals and opens the mind to ideas that go far beyond the classroom.

~Ahmed Zewail

Topics: Among Beyond Classroom Connections Discovered Far Go How Ideas Individuals Language Mind New Opens Science Truly Universal Universal Language

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Biography

Nationality: Egyptian

Type: Scientist

Born: February 26th, 1946

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