Voyage through Time

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 teh strange territory of femtochemistry with insightful analgies and illustrations to aid both the general reader and the scientifically inclined.