Objectives

Maybe now you are interested in knowing our mission and our objectives from this project …..here are what we want to do very briefly

We will showcase outstanding role models to help youths and young adults to pattern their lives.

We will inspire youth to think about what they want to be ,what they want to do,and how they will contribute back to life.

We will present role models from all fields of life, who have been successful in their field ,and who help others to realize their possibilities .

We will try to present role models from many careers and make them accessible to students in our school and maybe world wide via the internet.

Our world has fabulous potential in its youth .by opening them to life's possibilities, we can help them to strengthen their values and live up to their full potential.

"We Must Value Our Education."

The first Arab Muslim to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1999-discove the Femto second.

Dr. Ahmad Zewail is an Egyptian scientist who turned recently to be the most famous chemistry scientist in the world because he made a great discovery, which is considered to be the most important discovery in chemistry in the last few years, which is the “Femto Second”. The Egyptian scientist is the third Egyptian to win the Nobel Prize, after Naguib Mahfoz had won the literature prize in 1988 and late President Anwar Sadat who shared the peace prize in 1978, and he became also the first Arab Egyptian Muslim to win it for chemistry. The Nobel Prize is an award of nearly one million dollars.

He was born in Mansoura, Egypt in February 26, 1946. He went to Mansoura governmental school. He used to hang a paper on his room door which says “Dr. Ahmed”. He says that he wouldn’t have achieved what he had without his father’s encouragement.

He received his (Bachelor’s degree) in1967 and M.S. (Master’s degree) in1969 in chemistry from Alexandria University, and his Ph.D. (Doctorate’s degree) from the University of Pennsylvania in 1974. After he had got the Ph.D., he went to the University of California, Berkeley, as an IBM research fellow. Zewail got honorary degrees from the AUC (the American University in Cairo), Oxford University (UK), Katholieke University (Leuven, Belgium), University of Pennsylvania (USA), University de Lausanne (Switzerland), and Swinburne University (Australia).

He has received several honors and awards, including the King Faisal Prize, Rontgen Prize, Paul Karrer Gold Medal, Bonner Chemiepreis, Medal of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Carl Zeiss Award, Hoechst Award, and the Alexander von Humboldt Award.From the American Physical Society, he was awarded the Earle K. Plyler Prize and the Herbert P. Broida in 1995, and from the American Chemical Society, he was awarded the Richard C. Tolman Medal Award, Nichols Medal, Linus Pauling Medal, E. Bright Wilson Award, Harrison-Howe Award, and the Buck-Whitney Medal. From the National Academy of Sciences, the Chemical Sciences Award, from Yale University, the J. G. Kirkwood Award, and from the US Government, the E. O. Lawrence Award.

He got the Wolf Prize in 1992, the Leonardo DaVinci Award of Excellence in 1995, and the ACS Peter Debye Award in 1996, the Robert A. Welch Award in 1997, the Benjamin Franklin Medal in 1998. In 1995 he

received the Order of Merit, first class, from President Mubarak.And finally, he got the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1999.

He in 1982 became a full professor in (California institute of technology), He served as Visiting Professor at the University of Bordeaux, Ecole Normale Superieure, University of California, Los Angeles, American University, Cairo, Texas A&M, University of Iowa, College de France, and Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium. He was Alfred P. Sloan fellow, Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, and John Simon Guggenheim fellow.

He is currently a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Humanities and is the Linus Pauling Chair Professor and Professor of Physics at the Caltech, and Director of the NSF Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (LMS).

What would a football match on TV be without "slow motion" playing back afterwards the movements of the players and the ball when a goal is scored? Chemical reactions are a similar case. The chemists' desire to be able to follow chemical reactions in the smallest detail has increased. Zewail, has studied atoms and molecules in "slow motion" during a reaction and seen what actually happens when atoms break and new ones are created.Zewail's used what may be described as the world's fastest camera. This uses laser flashes that only take a very very short period of time photo the chemical reaction. One femtosecond is 10-15 seconds, that is, 10 ^-13 seconds, which is to a second as a second is to 32 million years. This area of physical chemistry has been named femtochemistry.

This new branch of science enables us to understand why some chemical reactions happen. Scientists all over the world are studying processes with femtosecond in gases and in solids, on surfaces and in polymers.

The Swedish academy said. "Femtochemistry has fundamentally changed our view of chemical reactions... We can now see the movements of atoms as we imagine them. They are no longer invisible”.

There were some streets which had been named after him, and so were some schools. Egypt has made two postal stamps with the likeness of Ahmed Zewail as an appreciation for his efforts and for rising Egypt’s name up high.

"I am particularly pleased as this honor comes from my country of birth and that I could be in the company of stamps honoring the pyramids, Tutankhamon, and Queen Nefertiti." said Zewail.

Zewail is really a perfect role model whose steps must be followed, that his a very successful man who achieved all he had achieved in spite of his hard circumstances.

Dr. Zewail is now one of the most famous scientists all over the world. We chose him in particular to write about because he is a very good example for young teens, that they should always believe in their ability to do what they want and that they can achieve what they have always dreamed about no matter what was the problems they face or the hard circumstances they have as long as they work hard and insist to reach what they want.

Zewail determined to reach his goal in life which was to be a great scientist, he didn’t surrender for being from a middle-class family but he knew how to get over this obstacle that was by the hard work. Believing that he can do what he wants with more and more effort. He worked harder and harder for this so he became an excellent student and he got a scholarship in the USA to make PHD and that was the second step for him to achieve his dreams and become a famous scientist. But that didn’t just mean anything except that he have to exert more and more effort and he did that he had been staying in the laboratory many, many hours a day searching and making researches. He finally did it and discovered the Femto-second.

Zewail believed in some principals which led him for this success; the first, to value your education. The second, man can’t be successful without team work. The third one, man should improve his skills from the experience he got during his work.

Zewail is a person with very rare characteristics. He is very modest what ever the situation is, he has a great patient which enabled him to make such a great discovery.

"I'll always do my best for my country."

The world champion from 1953-1975.

Abdel-latif Abu-Heif is considered as one of the greatest long distance swimmers in the history. the Egyptian crocodile.From 1956 and on, he kept making his achievements He won the Michigan Race (60 Km), He also won the Capri - Naples four or five times and the Rio de la Plata (Argentina), "William meets his Master" that was the comment of a French newspapers when Abu-Heif competed with the Flying Dutchman, one of the greatest world long-distance swimmers in the Lake

Ontario, Toronto race, where Abu Heif managed to defeat him. Abu-Heif was awarded the title of the Best Long-Distance Swimmer in History by the International Swimming Federation".

Abdel Latief Abu-Heif is one of the greatest long-distance swimmers the world has ever seen. He is a champion who isn’t forgettable in the field of long-distance swimming that the international Swimming Federation chose him in 1963 as the best swimmer in history. He was part of the Egyptian Championship team of swimmers known as the "Nile Crocodiles". Abu-Heif was the second favorite man of the Egyptian public-after the president Gamal Abdul Nasser then-despite the hard political situation then his races results was published across the world's newspapers.

He was born in Anfoshi -a popular district in Alexandria-, Egypt on January 30, 1929. His father was a primary school teacher and he had 13 brothers and sisters. He joined the Sand Hurst Military Academy in Great Britain where he spent three years from 1952. As a young man he saw a film for Johnny Weissmuller, the great Tarzan then,he decided to become a swimmer as powerful and famous as Johnny. At the age of 10, he won the first cup in his life which was the national primary school championship in Alexandria. His coach Abdul-Fattah Helal then discovered that this boy has a bright future and that his great love for the see enables him to do whatever it takes to win the race. The coach thought that Abdel Lateef could be a successor of Ishaq Helmi, the first Egyptian to cross the English Channel, so he paid more attention to him and arranged for him to move to Cairo where he was trained at al-Ahli Sporting Club, At that time his coaches thought it was worth entering Abouheif for the cross Channel swim - a competition much talked about in the 50's-. Abouheif did the crossing with seven other Egyptian swimmers and won. But that was not enough for him. So, later, he swam across the English Channel alone in a race against the clock which made him the fastest swimmer.

His human record is full of great events whish were as great as his sports ones. He gave his English Channel prize of £ 1000 - a real fortune at that time-to the seven children of a British swimmer ”Mathew” who drowned in 1954 attempting to crossing the Channel. He also gave the prize he won in the Nantes St. Nazaire race to a French swimmer, ”Georges Valery”, who had just become paralyzed at the top of his fame, a French paper said, "What a generous Egyptian gift". Another time, he left the prize money from an International race to the family of an Egyptian swimmer who accidentally drowned. In Lebanon at the time of the Saida - Beirut race, he came to the rescue of the impoverished Federation of Swimmers by baying everyone's hotel bill. That time-as they were up their ears in debt.

Abu-heif took part in the English Channel crossing race in 1953 with a number of Egyptian swimmers; Hilmi al-Maraghi, Abdel- Moneim Abdu, Moustafa Dawood and Fahmi Attallah. It is not just that no one could finish this race except him but he also made a new record time of 13:45 hours.

From 1956 and on, he kept making his impressive and wonderful achievements. He won the Michigan Race (60 Km) which raquiered 36 hours of swimming,He also won the Capri - Naples four or five times and the Rio de la Plata (Argentina) in which he took part at his own cost because of some problems in the Federation. This race was the longest one in his career (250 Km) from Rosario to Buenos Aires - 60 hours of swimming). In 1963, Abu-Heif had to compete with Harry William, known as the Flying Dutchman, one of the greatest world long-distance swimmers in the Lake Ontario, Toronto race, where Abu Heif managed to defeat the legendary swimmer. Commenting on the great victory, French newspapers commented saying "William meets his Master".Following the race, Abu-heif was awarded the title of the Best Long-Distance Swimmer in History by the International Swimming Federation".

In 1966, Abu Heif decided to quit.It was the hardest decision he has ever taken. But President Gamal Abdul Nasser supported the great swimmer, asking him to continue to represent Egypt. He then continued to reap international prizes until 1975. The last on the list was the Argentina long-distance race where he covered a distance of 250 km in 60 hours in a row. At the top of his fame, at the age of 46, Abu-Heif resigned.