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Autore |
Zewail Ahmed H |
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Titolo |
Voyage through time [[electronic resource] ] : walks of life to the Nobel Prize / / Ahmed Zewail |
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Singapore, : World Scientific Publishing, c2002 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-87686-0 |
9786611876869 |
981-256-447-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (343 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Femtochemistry - History - 20th century |
Chemists - Egypt |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-241) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Illustrations; Prologue; 1 First Steps On the Banks of the Nile; 2 The Gate to Science The Alexandria Years; 3 The American Encounter Independence in Philadelphia; 4 California Gold From Berkeley to Pasadena; 5 The Invisible Atom Close-up at Caltech; 6 The Race against Time Six Millennia to Femtotime; 7 Time and Matter The Femtouniverse in Perspective; 8 On the Road to Stockholm Festivities and Fairy Tales; 9 A Personal Vision The World of the Have-Nots; 10 Walks to the Future My Hope for Egypt and America; Epilogue Success-Is There a Formula?; Further Readings; Appendix |
Nobel Prize Address by Professor Bengt Nordén Nobel Prize Address by Ahmed Zewail; Order of the Grand Collar of the Nile (Qiladat al-Nil al-'Uzma) Address by President Mohammed Hosni Mubarak; Order of the Grand Collar of the Nile Address by Ahmed Zewail; New Initiative for Science and Technology in the Twenty-first Century; Curriculum Vitae Ahmed H. Zewail; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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From a beginning in an Egyptian delta town and the port of Alexandria to the scenic vistas of sunny southern California, Ahmed Zewail takes us on a voyage through time his own life and the split-second world |
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