How many of you have heard of Dr. Ahmed Zewail?

Dr. Zewail is an Egyptian professor and scientist. He is director of the NSF Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (LMS) at the California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), one of the top universities and research facilities in the world.

Professor Zewail was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering developments in the field of femtoscience, making it possible to observe the movement of the individual atoms in a femtosecond, a split second that is a millionth of a billionth of a second.

Anyway, someone at work today told me that he is here in Kuwait. He gave a lecture yesterday. OK, so let me get this straight, a Nobel prize winner is in the country and is giving a public lecture about molecular medicine among other thing, and I didn’t even hear he was here! I told myself that it must be my fault, I’m sure it was mentioned in the newspaper but I missed it. So I looked in today’s newspaper, and nothing about the lecture!

Instead, you get this in AlQabas -

Aaaakh ya Kuwait!