Nobel Prize winner given state funeral
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CAIRO (APP) - Nobel prize-winning Egyptian-American chemist Ahmed Zewail was given a state funeral with military honours on Sunday in Cairo attended by Egypt's president and top officials.
Zewail, who served as a science and technology advisor to US President Barack Obama, died on Tuesday in the United States aged 70.
A naturalised US citizen, Zewail won the Nobel prize for chemistry in 1999 for his groundbreaking work in the study of chemical reactions in extremely short timescales.
Egypt organised two high-profile processions to bid Zewail farewell on Sunday before he was laid to rest.
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Al-Azhar's Grand Imam Ahmed al-Tayeb, Defence Minister Sedki Sobhi and Egyptian-British surgeon Sir Magdi Yacoub attended one procession at a military complex.