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  "en": "Ahmed Zewail — Nobel Prize facts page"
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  "ar": "صفحة وقائع جائزة نوبل عن أحمد زويل: وُلد في دمنهور سنة 1946 ونشأ في الإسكندرية، ونال جائزة نوبل في الكيمياء سنة 1999 منفردا لدراساته الحالات الانتقالية للتفاعلات الكيميائية بمطيافية الفيمتوثانية.",
  "en": "Nobel Prize facts page for Ahmed Zewail: born in Damanhur in 1946 and brought up in Alexandria; sole Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1999 for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy."
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  "title": "Ahmed Zewail – Facts",
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  "URL": "http://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1999/zewail/facts/",
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  "reliability_note": "The award body's own record: birth (26 February 1946, Damanhur, Egypt), death (2 August 2016, Pasadena, CA, USA), affiliation at the time of the award (California Institute of Technology), prize motivation and full prize share (1/1), plus its short life and work summaries (Alexandria studies, Pennsylvania PhD, Berkeley, Caltech from 1976; femtosecond laser flashes in the late 1980s). Read as opened on 26 Oct 2026.",
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