Zaweel says that it is our duty to find the reason behind this indolence. In an interview with the editor in chief of Nobel Laureates - a magazine devoted to the winners - Dr.
Without the accomplishments of Arab scientists and the translation of the discoveries of Greek philosophers in the fields of astronomy and other sciences, European development would have doubtless been delayed a good 500 years. In their genetic composition, Arabs and Muslims are no different from other humans, and historically Arabs and Muslims were at the height of their civilization in Spain and the Arabian Peninsula at the time when Europe and Christianity were living in ignorance. Ahmad Zaweel, the Egyptian scientist who received the Nobel prize in chemistry in 1992 as a result of his laser research, says that it would be too simplistic to attribute this scientific torpor in the Muslim world to a single factor. What then is behind the scientific lethargy in the Islamic and Arab world and the consequent economic backwardness in comparison with the West and the Far East? Is it down to the inability of the Muslim World to isolate science from religion, which, it is suggested, works as a barrier?ĭr. Yet there are around 1.2 billion Muslims in the world. Ahmad Zaweel is the only Arab scientist to have received the Nobel science prize and the only Muslim to have received one since the death of the Pakistani physicist Dr.
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