The Royal Swedish Academy has awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Ahmed H. Zewail (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA) "for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy". Zewail's work has taken the study of the rates and mechanisms of chemical reactions to the ultimate degree of detail - the time scale of bond making and bond breaking.
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J. Chem. Educ.2000 77 14.
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History / Philosophy; Public Understanding; Kinetics; Mechanisms; Physical Chemistry; Lasers / Laser Spectroscopy
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