Ahmed Zewail
1946 – 2016 · Egypt · Chemistry
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1999
Founded femtochemistry, filming chemical bonds as they break.
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- C. V. Raman
1888 – 1970 · Physics
Raman scattering is the spectroscopic ancestor of Zewail's femtosecond probing of reactions.
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