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Who was the second African to win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry?

  • Ahmed Zewail

  • Paul L. Modrich

  • Richard R. Ernst

  • Aziz Sancar

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Ahmed Zewail was an Egyptian chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1999. He was the second African to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, after Linus Pauling in 1954. Zewail's research focused on femtochemistry, the study of chemical reactions at the atomic and molecular level. He developed new techniques for studying these reactions, which allowed him to make important discoveries about the mechanisms of chemical reactions.
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