Editing Ahmed Zewail (section)

==Career==
After completing his PhD, Zewail did [[postdoctoral research]] at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], supervised by [[Charles B. Harris]].<ref name="autobio" /> Following this, he was awarded a faculty appointment at the [[California Institute of Technology]] in 1976, and eventually became the first [[Linus Pauling]] Chair in Chemical Physics there.<ref name="autobio" /> He became a [[naturalized citizen]] of the United States on March 5, 1982.<ref>{{cite book|author=Zewail, Ahmed|title=Voyage Through Time: Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize|url=https://archive.org/details/voyagethroughtim00zewa|url-access=limited|year=2002|publisher=World Scientific|isbn=978-981-4338-09-7|page=[https://archive.org/details/voyagethroughtim00zewa/page/n226 214]}}</ref> Zewail was the director of the Physical Biology Center for Ultrafast Science and Technology at the [[California Institute of Technology]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Zewail, Ahmed|title=A Message from the Director|url=http://ust.caltech.edu/message/index.html|publisher=Physical Biology Center for Ultrafast Science and Technology, California Institute of Technology|access-date=8 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160810071820/http://www.ust.caltech.edu/message/index.html|archive-date=10 August 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
[[File:CFP_members_with_Dr._Ahmed_Zewail.jpg|alt=CFP_members_with_Dr._Ahmed_Zewail|thumb|Zewail with his colleagues at the [[Zewail City of Science, Technology and Innovation]] in 2012]]Zewail was nominated and participated in President Barack Obama's [[the United States President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology|Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology]] (PCAST), an advisory group of the nation's leading scientists and engineers to advise the President and Vice President and formulate policy in the areas of science, technology, and innovation.<ref name="WhiteHouse">{{cite web|title=President Obama Announces Members of Science and Technology Advisory Council|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/11/16/president-obama-announces-members-science-and-technology-advisory|publisher=The White House|date=27 April 2009|access-date=6 September 2019}}</ref>