Egypt

Mohamed ElBaradei

Egypt

for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way

Ahmed Hassan Zewail

United States of America, Egypt

for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy

Naguib Mahfouz

Egypt

who, through works rich in nuance – now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous – has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind

Anwar Sadat

Egypt

for jointly having negotiated the Camp David Accords, achieving peace between Egypt and Israel