Interview with Professor Ahmed H. Zewail by Professor Sture Forsén, Lund University, and David Dishart, student, 12 December 1999.

Professor Zewail talks about how he started in the field of femtosecond spectroscopy; the future of chemistry (3:45); his current work (5:36); his thoughts concerning femtosecond methods for studies in the living cell (7:08); encouraging students in Egypt to study science (8:25); how it is important to find time for thinking (12:04); how the Nobel Prize has affected his life (13:13); and how the Internet makes us more specialized (14:28).