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AHMED ZEWAIL.
Ahmed Hassan Zewail (Arabic: أحمد زويل) (born February 26, 1946) is an Egyptian American chemist, and the winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry. Born in Damanhur (60 km south-east of Alexandria) and raised in Disuq, he received his first degrees from the University of Alexandria before moving from Egypt to the United States to complete his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania. After some post doctorate work at the University of California, Berkeley, he was awarded a faculty appointment at Caltech in 1976, where he has remained since. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1982, and in 1990, he was made the first Linus Pauling Chair in Chemical Physics.
Zewail's key work has been as the pioneer of femtochemistry-i.e. the study of chemical reactions across femtoseconds. Using a rapid ultrafast laser technique (consisting of ultrashort laser flashes), the technique allows the description of reactions at the atomic level.
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How many seconds in a femto second?
There are 10-15 seconds in a femtosecond.
What are the other smaller units of second?
Split second, milli, micro, nano, pico, femto, attosecond etc.
How many femto second in second?
There are one quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) femtoseconds in a second.
What is sorter then a second?
Any of the following prefixes in front of second. Deci, centi, milli, micro, nano, pico, femto, atto etc.
How small is a femto in regards to a centimeter?
A femto is in metric prefix terms a quadrillionth, whereas a centimeter is a hundredth. The femto was added in 1964 and was derived from the word femten meaning 'fifteen'.
What comes after femto molar?
Its Venko
How many grams are in 1 femto?
5
What is the fraction prefix meaning 0.000000000000001?
femto.femto.femto.femto.
Who was the second person to discover Australia?
zheng he
What is femto chemistry?
The study of fast reaction is called femtochemistry.
Who were the second people to discover America?
Christopher Columbus because the Native Americans were in America first and Christopher Columbus was there second. He did not discover America because Native Americans were already there.
What is smaller then pico?
Femto is 10-15, atto is 10-18 for a start
