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IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY: AHMED ZEWAIL - PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR

By Greg Siskind

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The third of three immigrants on the the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology is Professor Ahmed Zewail, the winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Dr. Zewail is a professor of Chemistry and Physics at Caltech and is the Director of Caltech's Physical Biology Center. Dr. Zewail describes his research as follows: [The Nobel Prize was awarded for] pioneering developments in femtoscience, which made it possible to observe atoms in motion, the transition states of molecular transformations. This work created the discipline of femtochemistry, which is concerned with molecular reactivity on the femtosecond (10?15 s) timescale....

Full post as published by Greg Siskind's Blog on May 02, 2009 (boomark / email).

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