Nobel Prize

Presentation Speech by Professor Ralf Pettersson of the , December 10, 1999. Translation of the Swedish text. Professor Ralf Pettersson delivering the Presentation Speech for the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine at the Stockholm Concert Hall.   Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, Imagine a large factory that manufactures…

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Swedish 12 oktober 1999 har utdelat 1999 års Nobelpris i kemi till Professor Ahmed H. Zewail, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA för att han har visat att man med snabb laserteknik kan se hur atomerna i en molekyl rör sig under en kemisk reaktion. Vetenskapsakademiens motivering: För hans studier av kemiska reaktioners övergångstillstånd med…

German 12 Oktober 1999 hat den Nobelpreis in Chemie für das Jahr 1999 verliehen an Professor Ahmed H. Zewail, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA weil er nachgewiesen hat, daß man mit Hilfe schneller Laser-Technik sehen kann, wie sich Atome während einer chemischen Reaktion in einem Molekül bewegen. Entscheidung der Akademie der Wissenschaften: Für seine…

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Editorial Board: Prof. Villy Sundström, Lund University, Prof. Bengt Nordén, Chalmers University of Technology and Member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, Dr. Jennifer Herek, Lund University, Science editor Eva Krutmeijer and Dr. Solgerd Björn-Rasmussen, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Layout: Kjell Lundin, Explicare AB Illustrations: Jan-Åke Winqvist Printing: Tryckindustri 1999 Copyright © ,…

  (press release): The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences The Femtoland web page: 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.…

Contents: Based on materials from the 1999 Nobel Poster for Chemistry.

  The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Professor Ahmed H. Zewail for his studies of transition states of chemical reactions by femtosecond spectroscopy. Ahmed Zewail receives the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for being the first to reveal the decisive moments of a chemical reaction –…