THE 500 MOST INFLUENTIAL MUSLIMS - CESD

Science, Technology, Medicine, Lawzewail, dr ahmedDr Ahmed Zewail is a Linus Pauling Professor at the California Institute of Technology who wonthe 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research in femtochemistry. He has recently acceptedPresident Obama’s invitation to serve on the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science andTechnology. In January 2010 Dr Zewail was appointed one of the first US science envoys to Islam.The group of scholars visited Muslim countries from North Africa to Southeast Asia to findopportunities to develop the fields of science and technology in the Muslim world.154