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- catalog abstract ""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 of the femtosecond. In this engaging expose of his life and work until his receipt of the Nobel Prize in 1999, Zewail explores in non-technical language the landscape of molecules glimpsed on the scale of one quadrillionth of a second: the femtosecond, 0.000 000 000 000 001 second."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12506664.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""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 of the femtosecond. In this engaging expose of his life and work until his receipt of the Nobel Prize in 1999, Zewail explores in non-technical language the landscape of molecules glimpsed on the scale of one quadrillionth of a second: the femtosecond, 0.000 000 000 000 001 second."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "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?".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-241) and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 287 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Voyage through time.".
- catalog identifier "9774246772".
- catalog isFormatOf "Voyage through time.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press,".
- catalog relation "Voyage through time.".
- catalog spatial "Egypt".
- catalog subject "540/.92 B 22".
- catalog subject "Chemists Egypt Biography.".
- catalog subject "Femtochemistry History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "QD22.Z46 A3 2002".
- catalog subject "Zewail, Ahmed H.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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?".
- catalog title "Voyage through time : walks of life to the Nobel Prize / Ahmed Zewail.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".