At the age of 21, as a Moeid, I believed that behind every universal phenomenon there must be beauty and simplicity in its description
via nobelprize.org
Ahmed Zewail, who won a 1999 Nobel for his work chemistry, wrote a quite charming memoir for the Nobel site.
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