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Laureates, firsts and records: Nobel and other laureates, astronauts, Olympic firsts, first office-holders.

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  • Ahmed Zewail 1989

    Egyptian-American chemist, born in Damanhur in 1946, raised in Desouk and educated at Alexandria University. He founded femtochemistry and was known as the 'father of femtochemistry'; he received the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry alone, the first Egyptian and Arab to win a Nobel Prize in a scientific field, founded the Zewail City of Science and Technology, and died in 2016.