| Chemistry Nobel
spotlights fast reactions
Ahmed H. Zewail of
the California Institute of Technology won the 1999 Nobel Prize in
Chemistry for his pioneering work in observing and studying chemical
reactions at the atomic level.
References:
The official
announcement of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry can found at http://nobel.sdsc.edu/announcement-99/chemistry99.html.
Further Readings:
Amato, I. 1990.
Laser spotlights molecular choreography. Science News 137(March
3):135.
Peterson, I. 1993.
Atomic rebound makes breaking up hard. Science News 144(July
31):71.
Weisburd, S. 1987.
‘Snapshots’ of bond breaking and making. Science News
132(Dec. 12):372.
Sources:
Nicholas J. Turro
Columbia University
Department of Chemistry
3000 Broadway, MC 3119
New York, NY 10027
Web site: http://128.59.113.173/turropage/njt/default.html
Ahmed H. Zewail
California Institute of Technology
Arthur Amos Noyes Laboratory of Chemical Physics
Mail Code 127-72
Pasadena, CA 91125
Web site: http://www.its.caltech.edu/~femto/
From Science
News, Vol. 156, No. 16, October 16, 1999, p. 247. Copyright © 1999,
Science Service. |