Voyage through time : walks of life to the Nobel Prize
From a beginning in an Egyptian delta town and the port of Alexandriato the scenic vistas of sunny southern California, Ahmed Zewail takesus on a voyage through time â his own life and the split-secondworld of the femtosecond. In this endearing exposé of his life andwork until his receipt of the Nobel Prize in 1999, he draws lessonsfrom his life story so far, and he meditates on the impact which therevolution in science has had on our modern world â in bothdeveloped and developing countries. What makes the book enchanting andengaging is Zewail's emphasis on the human dimension and his uni
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1 online resource (xii, 287 pages) : illustrations (some color)
9789812564474, 9781617974939, 9781617972461, 9812564470, 1617974935, 1617972460
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First steps : on the banks of the Nile
The gate to science : the Alexandria years
The American encounter : Independence in Philadelphia
California gold : from Berkeley to Pasadena
The invisible atom : close-up at Caltech
The race against time : six millennia to femtotime
Time and matter : the femtouniverse in perspective
On the road to Stockholm : festivities and fairy tales
A personal vision : the world of the have-nots
Walks to the future : my hope for Egypt and America
Epilogue : success, is there a formula?
Electronic reproduction, [S.l.], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
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