Spellbound Episode 1—A Sign on the Door: Ahmed Zewail, Ph.D.

Produced for the 2011 International Year of Chemistry, the video series Spellbound, tells the story of scientists whose childhood curiosity about everyday things helped them launch careers in the lab, win Nobel Prizes and make other achievements. Their early childhood experiences may encourage young people into careers in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields.

This episode features Ahmed Zewail:

• 1999 Chemistry Nobel Laureate

• Linus Pauling Professor of Chemistry & Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology

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[kheffah]

love this man ... wish i wasn't forced by societal conditio to go into medicine when my passion was (and still is) for science

[khedkarsa]

Passion is the essence of research (& everything!).