A new residential city in Suez will be named after late Nobel laureate Egyptian scientist Ahmed Zewail, Suez Governor Ahmed el Hayatemy said.

Zewail, who passed away on August 2 at the age of 70, won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1999 for his development in femtoscience, which made it possible to the observe atoms in motion at an extremely small time scale. He is the first Egyptian and Arab to win the prestigious award in chemistry.

Source: MENA