Egyptian mourners surround an ambulance carrying the coffin of Egyptian-American Nobel Laureate Ahmed Zewail during a public funeral ceremony at the site of a science academy founded by Zewail, in 6th of October city, near Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2016. Egypt bid farewell to Ahmed Zewail, the Egyptian-born scientist who won a Nobel Prize in 1999, according him a military funeral with full honors led by President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi. Zewail, was a science adviser to President Obama who won the 1999 Nobel Prize for his work on the study of chemical reactions over immensely short time scales. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
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