| | Femtosecond scientist gets the real-time wakeup call from Stockholm |
 | | Zewail had brought the most powerful tools from the field of physics into the chemistry lab to create a revolution, and the field of femto-chemistry was born. |
 | | Prior to the teams 1987 breakthrough, transition states had never before been observed in real time because they happen on the time scale of a millionth of a billionth of a second, or one femto- |
 | | By combining ultrafast laser technology with molecular beam studies in a novel way, Zewails Caltech team was able to record the transition state of a chemical reaction, revealing "the chemical actthe breaking and making of chemical bonds," in Zewails words. |
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