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.

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