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"""Zewail's book demonstrates that he has the ability - rare for most working scientists - to eschew technical jargon in favor of communicating to a nonscientific audience the goals, techniques, and results of his research by making extensive use of ingenious analogies and metaphors.... at times his prose verges on the poetic."" - Chemical Heritage; ""Ahmed Zewail's idealism and success is evident on every page of his autobiography..."" - al-Jadid"""

Zewail's book demonstrates that he has the ability - rare for most working scientists - to eschew technical jargon in favor of communicating to a nonscientific audience the goals, techniques, and results of his research by making extensive use of ingenious analogies and metaphors.... at times his prose verges on the poetic. - Chemical Heritage; Ahmed Zewail's idealism and success is evident on every page of his autobiography... - al-Jadid

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Ahmed Zewail received the Nobel prize for chemistry, unshared, in 1999. He currently occupies the Linus Pauling Chair of Chemistry and he is professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena. Dr. Zewail has been awarded the Grand Collar of the Nile, Egypt's highest state honor, and more than fifty international degrees and prizes from around the world.

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