EGYPT on Tuesday heaped praises on the Egyptian-American winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, Ahmed Zewail. “I’m proud that a son of Egypt has received a Nobel prize. It is an honor for Egypt and all Egyptians,” Higher Education Minister and Minister of State for Scientific Research Mufid Shehab said. The Arab League expressed its “extreme joy” that an Arab had won the prize. “The achievements Ahmed Zewail made in chemistry revive the glory of the Arab ancestors in this field.” Zewail, who now lives in the United States where he is a researcher at the California Institute of Technology, won the prize by using “the world’s fastest camera” to bring about a revolution in chemistry and other sciences.