December 10, 1999: The Egyptian American scientist Ahmed Zewail wins the Nobel Prize for chemistry.
Dr. Zewail won the prize for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy.
Nobel Prizes in Science
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