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Voyage through time : walks of life to the nobel prize / Ahmed Zewail.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zewail, Ahmed H., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Zewail, Ahmed H.
- Chemists.
- Femtochemistry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st pbk. ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cairo, Egypt ; New York, New York : The American University in Cairo Press, [2003]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- From a beginning in an Egyptian Delta town and the port of Alexandria to the scenic vistas of sunny southern California, Ahmed Zewail takes us on a voyage through time-his own life and the split-second world of the femtosecond. In this engaging exposé of his life and work until his receipt of the Nobel Prize in 1999, Zewail explores in non-technical language the landscape of molecules glimpsed on the scale of one quadrillionth of a second: the femtosecond, 0. 000 000 000 000 001 second. Zewail enriches the journey into the strange territory of femtochemistry with insightful analogies and illus
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-241) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 977-424-677-2
- 1-61797-246-0
- 1-61797-493-5
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