A military funeral was held in Cairo on Sunday to commemorate Nobel prize-winning Egyptian-American chemist Ahmed Zewail, who died in the United States on Tuesday.
Zewail was a science and technology advisor to President Barack Obama and the first U.S. science envoy to the Middle East.
He was also a member of the California Institute of Technology faculty, and the sole recipient of the Nobel chemistry prize in 1999 for his pioneering work in femtochemistry, the study of chemical reactions in ultra-short time scales.
An author of some 600 scientific articles and 16 books, he is credited with developing a new research field dubbed four-dimensional electron microscopy.
The funeral was attended by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, along with military leaders, public officials and Zewail's family.
Following the military funeral, the coffin carrying Zewail was taken to a burial site in Cairo wrapped in an Egyptian flag, where friends and family gathered in prayer.
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