At 16:17 12/10/99 +0300, John Kerkines wrote:
The Nobel Committee just announced that the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1999 is awarded to Professor Ahmed H. Zewail from Caltech for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy.
For more info http://www.nobel.se/announcement-99/chemistry99.html
This author was ranked 41 in the old 1997 ISI list of most cited chemists : Author(s) Name Average citation Total articles Total citations Rank by total citations ZEWAIL AH 38.90 211 8208 41 See : http://pcb4122.univ-lemans.fr/cit.html So, not a big surprise. One more Nobel among the first 50 in the list. Best, Armel Le Bail http://sdpd.univ-lemans.fr/course/ chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)