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- noun chemistry the study of
chemical reactions on a very shorttime scale , often usingpulsed lasers
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- noun the branch of chemistry that studies elementary (often very fast) chemical reactions as they occur; the experimental methods are often based on the use of femtosecond laser pulses
Etymologies
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Zewail (born 1946 in Egypt) at California Institute of Technology received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1999 for his development of "femtochemistry" and in particular for being the first to experimentally demonstrate a transition state during a chemical reaction.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry 2010
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Other projects arising from the partnership include research in the field of femtochemistry and laser spectroscopy.
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Here lies the reason why the femtochemistry research initiated by this year's Nobel
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This area of physical chemistry has been named femtochemistry.
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At the end of the 1980s he performed a series of experiments that were to lead to the birth of the research area called femtochemistry.
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Twelve years ago he published results that gave birth to the scientific field called femtochemistry.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1999 - Presentation Speech 1999
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Another biologically important example where femtochemistry has explained efficient energy conversion is in chlorophyll molecules, which capture light in photosynthesis.
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He will star in his own talk show called 'Dr Oz' in late 2009. zewail, ahmed Ahmed Zewail is a Linus Pauling Professor at the California Institute of Technology who won the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research in femtochemistry.
Recently Uploaded Slideshows AlHaqqNetwork 2010
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● PhD (physics or chemistry) in femtosecond science, preferably in one of the fields mentioned above, i.e. femtosecond diagnostics, coherent control, pulse shaping, femtochemistry, pump probe spectroscopy or micro machining.
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Ahmed Zewail is the first Linus Pauling Chair in Chemical Physics at Caltech and is considered by some the father of femtochemistry.
Betanews 2009
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