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New hope for cancer cure with `Femtochemistry`
New Delhi, Oct 23: `Femtochemistry`, the sciencewhich observes chemical reactions at one million billionthpart of a second, has immense potential in curing deadlydiseases like cancer, Prof Ahmed Zewail, recipient of 1999Nobel Prize for Chemistry has said.
New Delhi, Oct 23: `Femtochemistry`, the science
which observes chemical reactions at one million billionth
part of a second, has immense potential in curing deadly
diseases like cancer, Prof Ahmed Zewail, recipient of 1999
Nobel Prize for Chemistry has said.
"Femtochemistry has opened a new area of discovery for physical chemistry, allowing us to understand and predict important reaction mechanisms as to why certain reactions occur while others don`t," he said delivering the Albert Einstein lecture on `Time`s Mysteries and Miracles` here yesterday. Zewail, won the Nobel for his investigation of fundamental chemical reactions, using ultra-short laser flashes, on the time scale on which the reactions actually occur. He studied atoms and molecules in slow motion during a reaction to observe what actually happened when a chemical bond broke and new ones were created.
It`s like a third umpire watching a `slow motion` replay of a cricket match to determine whether a player is run out, he said.
"My Nobel citation records how my experiments ended the race against time. I had discovered the smallest second, the femtosecond which is one million billionth part of a second", he said.
"At the end of all...We still don`t understand time. In the microscopic world the uncertainties in time remains, if we understand them all mysteries will end," he added.
"Femtochemistry has opened a new area of discovery for physical chemistry, allowing us to understand and predict important reaction mechanisms as to why certain reactions occur while others don`t," he said delivering the Albert Einstein lecture on `Time`s Mysteries and Miracles` here yesterday. Zewail, won the Nobel for his investigation of fundamental chemical reactions, using ultra-short laser flashes, on the time scale on which the reactions actually occur. He studied atoms and molecules in slow motion during a reaction to observe what actually happened when a chemical bond broke and new ones were created.
It`s like a third umpire watching a `slow motion` replay of a cricket match to determine whether a player is run out, he said.
"My Nobel citation records how my experiments ended the race against time. I had discovered the smallest second, the femtosecond which is one million billionth part of a second", he said.
"At the end of all...We still don`t understand time. In the microscopic world the uncertainties in time remains, if we understand them all mysteries will end," he added.
Bureau Report