Zewail (born 1946 in Egypt) at California Institute of Technology received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1999 for his development of "femtochemistry" and in particular for being the first to experimentally demonstrate a transition state during a chemical reaction. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry] Reference
This area of physical chemistry has been named femtochemistry. From Wordnik.com. [Press Release: The 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry] Reference
Here lies the reason why the femtochemistry research initiated by this year's Nobel. From Wordnik.com. [Press Release: The 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry] Reference
Twelve years ago he published results that gave birth to the scientific field called femtochemistry. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1999 - Presentation Speech] Reference
Other projects arising from the partnership include research in the field of femtochemistry and laser spectroscopy. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
At the end of the 1980s he performed a series of experiments that were to lead to the birth of the research area called femtochemistry. From Wordnik.com. [Press Release: The 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry] Reference
Another biologically important example where femtochemistry has explained efficient energy conversion is in chlorophyll molecules, which capture light in photosynthesis. From Wordnik.com. [Press Release: The 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry] Reference
Ahmed Zewail is the first Linus Pauling Chair in Chemical Physics at Caltech and is considered by some the father of femtochemistry. From Wordnik.com. [Betanews] Reference
● PhD (physics or chemistry) in femtosecond science, preferably in one of the fields mentioned above, i.e. femtosecond diagnostics, coherent control, pulse shaping, femtochemistry, pump probe spectroscopy or micro machining. From Wordnik.com. [optics.org all content] Reference
He will star in his own talk show called 'Dr Oz' in late 2009. zewail, ahmed Ahmed Zewail is a Linus Pauling Professor at the California Institute of Technology who won the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research in femtochemistry. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Zewail was awarded the Nobel Prize for pioneering the science of femtochemistry, the use of ultrashort laser flashes to observe fundamental chemical reactions occurring at the timescale of the femtosecond (one-millionth of a billionth of a second). From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
Zewail was awarded the Nobel Prize for pioneering the science of femtochemistry, the use of ultrashort laser flashes to observe fundamental chemical reactions -- atoms uniting into molecules, then breaking apart back into atoms -- occurring at the timescale of the femtosecond, or one millionth of a billionth of a second. From Wordnik.com. [Nano Tech Wire] Reference
Towards the future with femtochemistry ». From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1999] Reference
Development of femtochemistry rewarded. From Wordnik.com. [Press Release: The 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry] Reference
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