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Martinus J.G.Veltman,
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Robert C. Laughlin, U.S.
Horst L. Stormer,
Germany and Daniel C.
Tsui, China
|7 Steven Chu, William
Phillips, U.S. and Claude
Cohen Tannoudji, France
David M. Lee, Douglas D.
Osheroff and Robert C.
Richardson, U.S.
Martin L. Perl and
Frederick Reines, U.S.
Clifford G. Shull, U.S.
Bertram N. Brockhouse,
Canada
Russell A. Hulse and
Joseph H. Taylor Jr., U.S.
Georges Charpek, France
|t Pierres-Gilles de Gennes,
France
0 Jerome I Friedman,
Henry W. Kendall, U.S.
Richard E. Taylor, Canada
Committee awards Nobel Prizes
for fields of chemistry, physics
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AP — Scientists in the United States and Denmark
were awarded Nobel Prizes yesterday for their efforts
to corral some of the fastest, smallest phenomena in
the universe and peer into their very cores.
None of the winners of the physics and chemistry
prizes this year are household names. But the face of
the chemistry winner, Ahmed Zewail of the California
Institute of Technology, is familiar in his native Egypt,
where he appears on two postage stamps.
Zewail, 53, was honored for pioneering a revolu
tion in chemistry by using rapid-fire laser flashes that
illuminate the motion of atoms in a molecule.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Zewail’s
work in the 1980s led to the birth of femtochemistry, the
use of high-speed cameras to monitor chemical reactions
at a scale of femtoseconds, 0.000000000000001 seconds
(one-quadrillionth of a second).
“We have reached the end of the road; no chemical
reactions take place faster than this,” the academy said.
“We can now see the movements of individual atoms
as we imagine them. They are no longer invisible.”
Other scientists described Zewail’s studies of how
chemical bonds break and new molecules form as
“the ultimate level of observation.” They said because
his work helps researchers manipulate chemical re
actions on a fundamental level, it might lead to faster
computer chips and ultra-precise machinery.
“Everything in life is getting faster and faster,” Hen
ry Kaptyen, a laser expert at the University of Colorado
in Boulder, said. “This lays the groundwork for tech
nology that will develop over the next 20 to 50 years.”
"The main thing you have to
do to get the Nobel Prize is
not die/'
— Martinus J.G. Veltman
Co-winner of 1999 Nobel Prize in physics
The Nobel committee surprised a sleeping Zewail
with a pre-dawn telephone call to his home in San
Marino, Calif., where he was recuperating from a cold.
Gerardus’t Hooft and Martinus J.G. Veltman won
the physics prize for developing more precise calcu
lations used to predict and confirm the existence of
subatomic particles.
It is the latest in a series of Nobel prizes for re
searchers who are inching closer to a unified theory
of the forces that control the behavior of matter and
the complexities of the universe.
Veltman, 68, who lives in the central Dutch town
of Bilthoven, is professor emeritus at the University of
Michigan and former professor at the University of
Utrecht; ’t Hooft has been a professor of physics at the
University of Utrecht since 1977.
Their research provided a more precise roadmap
for physicists to find more subatomic particles.
Accelerators briefly recreate hot, primordial condi
tions in miniature, to determine whether subatomic
particles behave in predicted ways, or even exist at all.
Scientists hope a new accelerator being built in
Geneva will confirm the existence of a particle that
Veltman and’t Hooft have suggested could be locat
ed under the right conditions.
Veltman, who acknowledged his research was often
too opaque to explain to his own family, celebrated the
award by smoking cigars with friends in his home.
“The main thing you have to do to get the Nobel
Prize is not die,” he said as companions laughed.
The literature prize was awarded last Thursday to
German novelist Guenter Grass. The medicine prize
was awarded Monday to Dr. Guenter Blobel of New
York’s Rockefeller University, who discovered how
proteins find their rightful places in cells.
The economics prize winner will be announced
today in Stockholm and the peace prize Friday in
Oslo, Norway.
Chemistry • 1999
Winners since 1989
1999 Ahmed H. Zewail,
United States
1998 Walter Kohn and John A.
Pople, United States
1997 Paul D. Boyer, United States,
John E. Walker, England, and
Jens C. Skou, Denmark
1996 Harold W. Kroto, Britain and
Robert F. Curl Jr, and Richard
E. Smalley, United States
1995 Paul Crutzen, Netherlands
and Mario Molina and
F. Sherwood Rowland,
United States
1994 George A. Olah, United States
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and Michael Smith, Canada
1992 Rudolph A. Marcus,
Canadian-born American
1991 Richard R. Ernst,
Switzerland
1990 Elias James Corey,
United States
1989 Sidney Altman and
Thomas Cech, United States
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