There is a trend toward rapid communication journals, but five of the top journals remain within the top ten reported in 1973. The articles on organic synthesis have an increasing number of inorganic and organometallic components. Synthetic Chemical Literature. This is just three months after the discovery of element 114 by a joint Russian-American research group in January, 1999. The 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Professor Ahmed H. Zewail, California Institute of Technology, was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Femtoseconds are on the time scale in which the reactions occur.
A high-speed camera captures molecules in the state as the reaction barrier is crossed during which some chemical bonds brake and new bonds are created. Ahmed Zewail was born in 1946 in Egypt, and graduated with a Ph.D in 1974 from the University of Pennsylvania. After two years at the University of California Berkeley as an IBM research fellow, Professor Zewail was appointed to the faculty at Caltech.