Bøker av Ahmed H (California Inst Of Technology Zewail

Ever since the beginning of mankind's efforts to pursue scientific inquiry into the laws of nature, visualization of the very distant and the very small has been paramount. The examples are numerous.

Why can't we have peace in our world, and what is its future? Can we provide basic education to all children? Why the decline in the Arab and Muslim World after reaching the acme of achievement? Is Islam the problem? In the land of opportunity - the United States of America - can the Republic maintain world leadership?

Ahmed Zewail takes us on a voyage through his own life and the world of the femtosecond. Examining 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.

Compares the merits of coherent electron waves with those of synchrotron radiation. This book exposes the paradigm concepts and the developed techniques that can be executed to gain knowledge in the entire domain of biological and physical science, and in the four dimensions of space and time.