Nobel Prize Goes to Zewail for Developing Femtochemistry
DEC 01, 1999
Femtosecond pulsed lasers have made it possible to catch molecules in the bonding act.
DOI: 10.1063/1.882895
The 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Ahmed Zewail, “for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy.” Zewail is the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemistry at Caltech. “I’m also a professor in the physics department,” he wants our readers to know.
© 1999. American Institute of Physics
