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"A personal story... a voyage through time.” For Ahmed Zewail, awarded the 1999 chemistry prize, the Nobel Prize medal carried a deeper symbolic story which he traced in his banquet speech back to his early life and education in Egypt: "The medal I received… was designed by Erik Lindberg in 1902 to represent Nature in the form of the Goddess Isis – or as the Egyptians would say, ‘Eeses’ [the prominent ancient Egyptian Goddess of motherhood, nature, magic, healing and more]. She emerges from the