Biological sciences, the complexity of molecular function
and the new development of ultrafast diffraction for the
imaging of transient structures in space and time with
atomic-scale resolution

1967~1969 Instructor and Researcher, Alexandria University
1970~1974 Research Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
1974~1976 IBM Postdoctoral Fellow, University of
California, Berkeley
1976~1978 Assistant Professor, Chemical Physics, Caltech
1978~1982 Associate Professor, Chemical Physics, Caltech
1982~1989 Professor, Chemical Physics, Caltech
1990~1994 Linus Pauling Professor, Chemical Physics, Caltech
1995~ Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical and
professor of Physics, Caltech
1996~ Director, NSF Laboratory for Molecular
Sciences, Caltech

1989 King Faisal International Prize in Science
1993 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
1995 Order of Merit, Egypt
1997 Robert A. Welch Award in Chemistry
1998 Benjamin Franklin Medal
1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1999 Order of the Grand Collar of the Nile, Egypt
2000 Order of Merit of Tunisia