Voyage through time : walks of life to the Nobel Prize /
From a beginning in an Egyptian delta town and the port of Alexandriato the scenic vistas of sunny southern California, Ahmed Zewail takesus on a voyage through time â his own life and the split-secondworld of the femtosecond. In this endearing exposé of his life andwork until his receipt of th...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cairo ; New York :
American University in Cairo Press,
©2002.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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?