Further reading
Information of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (press release): The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
The Femtoland web page: www.its.caltech.edu/~femto
The Birth of Molecules, A.H. Zewail, Scientific American, Vol. 262, Dec. 1990, pp.40-46
Laser Femtochemistry, A.H. Zewail, Science, Vol. 242 (1988), pp. 1645-1653
Femtochemistry: Recent progress in studies of Dynamics and Control of Reactions and their Transition States, A.H. Zewail, J. Phys. Chem. (Centennial Issue), Vol. 100 (1996) 12701-12
Femtochemistry: Ultrafast Dynamics of the Chemical Bond, Vol 1-2, A.H. Zewail. World Scientific 1994 pp.915, ISBN 9810219407
Femtosecond Chemistry, Vol 1-2, Eds. J. Manz, L. Wöste. VCH 1995 pp. 916, ISBN 3-527-29062-1
Femtochemistry and Femtobiology: Ultrafast Reaction Dynamics at Atomic-Scale Resolution, Nobel Symposium 101.Ed.V. Sundström.World Scientific, Singapore 1997. ISBN 1-86094-039-0
The World’s Fastest Camera, V.K. Jain. The World and I, October 1995, pp. 156-163
Freezing Time – in a Femtosecond, J.S. Baskin and A.H. Zewail, Science Spectra, Issue 14 (1998) pp. 62-71
Ten years of Femtochemistry: Time Resolution of Physical, Chemical and Biological Dynamics, A.W. Castleman and V. Sundström (eds.), J. Phys. Chem. – Special Issue (1998), pp. 4021.
Nobel Prizes and laureates
Six prizes were awarded for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. The 12 laureates' work and discoveries range from proteins' structures and machine learning to fighting for a world free of nuclear weapons.
See them all presented here.