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Zewail died aged 70 on the evening of August 2, 2016, after a long battle with cancer.

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Zewail married his wife Dema Faham in 1989. He had four children: Maha, Amani, Nabeel, and Hani.

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In a speech at Cairo University on June 4, 2009, US President Barack Obama announced a new Science Envoy program as part of a "new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world."
In January 2010, Ahmed Zewail, Elias Zerhouni, and Bruce Alberts became the first US science envoys to Islam, visiting Muslim-majority countries from North Africa to Southeast Asia.

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He founded (2011) Zewail City of Science and Technology, a premier institute of technology in Cairo.

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Over the years, Ahmed Zewail received great many honors and awards.

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In 1982, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States, although he still held ties with his home country of Egypt.

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after moving on to the University of Berkeley, he eventually received a fellowship at the California Institute of Technology in 1976.

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Upon the completion of his M.S. degree, he moved to the United States to enroll in a PhD program. The school he selected to work on his PhD at was the University of Pennsylvania. Upon finishing his PhD, he ventured out to the University of California, Berkeley, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship.

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He recieved his B.S. (1967) and M.S. (1969) degrees from the University of Alexandria.

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In 1999 he won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, first Egyptian and Arab to do so in the science field, for developing a rapid laser technique that enabled scientists to study the action of atoms during chemical reactions and gain more control over the outcome.

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He was born February 26, 1946, Damanhur, Egypt to two loving parents and three sisters.
He moved to Alexandria at a young age and this is where he grew up.