Voyage through time : walks of life to the Nobel Prize / Ahmed Zewail.

Cairo, Egypt : American University in Cairo Press, [2002], ©2002.

xii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

First steps : on the banks of the Nile -- The gate to science : the Alexandria years -- The American encounter : Independence in Philadelphia -- California gold : from Berkeley to Pasadena -- The invisible atom : close-up at Caltech -- The race against time : six millennia to femtotime -- Time and matter : the femtouniverse in perspective -- On the road to Stockholm : festivities and fairy tales -- A personal vision : the world of the have-nots -- Walks to the future : my hope for Egypt and America -- Epilogue : success, is there a formula?

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-241) and index.