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Egyptian or American?

He was born in Egypt, and is ethnically Egyptian. However, he is a US citizen, and citizenship trumps ethnicity. If not, then we have to call Washington "English," and Edison "Dutch," and Lindbergh "Swedish," and so forth. Godfrey Daniel 05:45, 8 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Excuse me, but Washington, Edison and Lindberg were all born in the United States. Zewail was born and raised and lived most of his life in Egypt. He is a naturalized citizen of the US. There is a big difference. Egyegy 05:54, 8 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

He is still an Egyptian citizen, he was born and raised in Egypt and only became a citizen of the U.S. when he was 36. American citizenship is not to be preferred over any other, and there is no conflict in mentioning both Egyptian and American.

Also, Egyegy, I don't know how his Egyptian nationality takes precendence over the other characteristics, if anything it is his profession and his receiving a Nobel Peace prize that made him notable, not his nationality.

Anyway, I tend to list categories in alphabetical order, not by significance, and that's why I placed the two categories in front. --Inahet 19:35, 2 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Zewail or Zowail

I guess the question has been raised before, but why is AZ listed as Zowail? He publishes all his papers as Zewail, so I would assume that this is his correct, or at least preferred name. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.32.220.37 (talk) 00:52, 24 January 2009 (UTC) Done You're right his name is Zewail based on this http://www.its.caltech.edu/~femto/ . I moved it to Ahmed Zewail.--Diaa abdelmoneim (talk) 08:56, 27 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I just went to Encyclopedia dramatica

and it said that this guy won an award for his article on BREASTS? please confirm.

False, like lots of things on that site.Mipchunk (talk) 07:27, 14 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Femtosecond Spectroscopy, Not "Femtochemistry"

Femtochemistry is not a real title/subject of research. It is called Femtosecond Spectroscopy. That is what every research university and research group that studies or uses this tool refers to it as. Femtochemistry is an absurd misnomer, since few if any chemical reactions occur on the femtosecond timescale, and his Nobel Prize was given for kinetic research (Eg: the study of chemical reactions). Atoms simply do not move around on the femtosecond timescale. They move around on the Picosecond (molecular vibration and diffusion limit) timescale or slower.68.6.76.31 (talk) 04:54, 3 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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+== Femtosecond Spectroscopy, Not "Femtochemistry" ==
+Femtochemistry is not a real title/subject of research.  It is called Femtosecond Spectroscopy.  That is what every research university and research group that studies or uses this tool refers to it as.  Femtochemistry is an absurd misnomer, since few if any chemical reactions occur on the femtosecond timescale, and his Nobel Prize was given for kinetic research (Eg:  the study of chemical reactions).  Atoms simply do not move around on the femtosecond timescale.  They move around on the Picosecond (molecular vibration and diffusion limit) timescale or slower.[[Special:Contributions/68.6.76.31|68.6.76.31]] ([[User talk:68.6.76.31|talk]]) 04:54, 3 August 2011 (UTC)