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Scientist Who Sparked 'A Revolution in Chemistry' Dies at 70 (washingtonpost.com)
Ahmed Zewail pioneered a technique for using lasers to monitor chemical reactions, which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said sparked "a revolution in chemistry and adjacent sciences." Slashdot reader Provocateur writes, "The Washington Post has the story...citing his prizewinning research in femtochemistry..."
Slashdot covered Zewail's Nobel prize in 1999, as well as his 2001 claim to have resolved Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. "Mathematics, mechanics, and chemistry were among the fields that gave me a special satisfaction..." he says in the Post's article, adding "for reasons unknown (to me), my mind kept asking 'how' and 'why.' "
Slashdot covered Zewail's Nobel prize in 1999, as well as his 2001 claim to have resolved Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. "Mathematics, mechanics, and chemistry were among the fields that gave me a special satisfaction..." he says in the Post's article, adding "for reasons unknown (to me), my mind kept asking 'how' and 'why.' "
Its nice when you don't have to live in 3rd world conditions.
Millions of muslims live in countries with per capita GDPs that would place them in the 1st world. Instead of using their wealth to educate, they use it to pay for imports and to keep women uneducated and economically isolated. Even Ahmed Zewail, a rare example of an exemplary muslim scientist, did almost all of his important work will living in America.
There is some effort to change things, such as King Saud University, a first rate research university where women are treated like human beings, but that is a rare exception, and is generating a lot of conservative push-back.