Ahmed Zewail calls for transition

The Cal Tech professor and Egypt’s Nobel Laureate in Chemistry speaks out again. (The story says it was a Nobel in Physics, but that is incorrect.)

Today 6:56 AM Nobel Laureate Urges Mubarak To Go

Reuters reports that U.S.-Egyptian scientist Ahmed Zewail, who once received a medal from Hosni Mubarak, is calling for Egypt’s leader to exit immediately:

“He should step down tomorrow and allow for a transitional government,” Zewail told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday.

Zewail, 64, who won the Nobel prize for physics in 1999 and was awarded the Grand Collar of the Nile by Mubarak the same year, has long enjoyed a celebrity cachet in his native land.