Press Release, Extended Version - The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1999
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1 Extended version of the Press release The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Professor Ahmed H. Zewail, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA. The Academys motivation: " for his studies of transition states of chemical reactions by femtosecond spectroscopy ". Abstract: This years Nobel Laureate, Professor Ahmed Zewail, is rewarded for his pioneering investigations of chemical reactions on the time-scale they really occur. This is the same timescale on which the atoms in the molecules vibrate, namely femtoseconds (1 fs = 10-15 seconds). Only recently have developments in laser technology enabled us to study such rapid processes, using ultra-short laser flashes. Professor Zewails contributions have brought about a revolution in chemistry, with consequences for many other fields of science, since this type of investigation allows us to understand and predict important processes. Development of "Femtochemistry" rewarded When molecules undergo chemical reactions, their atoms move so Ebook Relate: chemistry ebook nobel ebook professor ebook reactions ebook chemical ebook chemical reactions ebook for his ebook professor ahmed ebook nobel prize ebook |
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