Talk:Ahmed Zewail

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	Egypt Portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Egypt, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to articles on Egypt on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
Stub	This article has been rated as Stub-Class on the Project's quality scale.
High	This article has been rated as High-importance on the Project's importance scale.
	After rating the article, please provide a short summary on the article's ratings summary page to explain your ratings and/or identify the strengths and weaknesses.

This article must adhere to the policy on biographies of living persons. Controversial material of any kind that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous. If such material is repeatedly inserted or there are other concerns relative to this policy, report it on the living persons biographies noticeboard.

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography. For more information, visit the project page.	Biography Portal
Stub	This article has been rated as Stub-Class on the Project's quality scale. [FAQ] (If you rated the article, please give a short summary at comments to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses.)
	This article is supported by the Science and academia work group.

[edit] Egyptian or American?

He was born in Egypt, and is ethnically Egyptian. However, he is a US citizen, and citizenship trumps ethnicity. If not, then we have to call Washington "English," and Edison "Dutch," and Lindbergh "Swedish," and so forth. Godfrey Daniel 05:45, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Excuse me, but Washington, Edison and Lindberg were all born in the United States. Zewail was born and raised and lived most of his life in Egypt. He is a naturalized citizen of the US. There is a big difference. Egyegy 05:54, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

He is still an Egyptian citizen, he was born and raised in Egypt and only became a citizen of the U.S. when he was 36. American citizenship is not to be preferred over any other, and there is no conflict in mentioning both Egyptian and American.

Also, Egyegy, I don't know how his Egyptian nationality takes precendence over the other characteristics, if anything it is his profession and his receiving a Nobel Peace prize that made him notable, not his nationality.

Anyway, I tend to list categories in alphabetical order, not by significance, and that's why I placed the two categories in front. --Inahet 19:35, 2 September 2006 (UTC)