ISBN: 9788188155057 - voyage through time (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. pp. 286 Illus.

Zustand: As New. Contents: 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. Index. 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 femto second 0.000 000 000 000 001 second. Zewail enriches the journey into the strange territory of femtochemistry with insightful analogies and illustrations to aid both the general reader and the scientifically inclined. He likewise draws lessons from his life story so far and he meditates on the impact the revolution in science has had on our modern world in both developed and developing countries. He suggests a concrete course of action for the world of the have nots and ends the book with hope for Egypt in developing the nation's greatest natural resource its youth to build a more promising future and for America to develop a new vision domestically and internationally. 288 pp.…