Scientist of the Decade Ahmed H. Zewail

Ahmed H. Zewail, winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on femtosecond kinetics (Caltech Public Relations Office) 

The young Dr. Ahmed was passionate about reading and enjoyed music, some sports, and backgammon. His early interest in things scien- 

Jeffrey L. Extraterrestrial Handedness Science 275 (1997) 942-43. This is a brief commentary on the discovery of an excess of L-amino acids on the Murchison meteorite. 

Braja Gopal, and Gunter von Kiedrowski. Templates, Autocatalysis and Molecular Replication. Pure Applied Chemistry 68 (1996) 2,145-52. This accessible article provides principles of molecular self-replication and describes investigations in the field. 

Baneyx, Franpois. Molecular Chaperones and Foldases, University of Washington. Available online. URL http //faculty.washington.edu/ baneyx/res/Chaperones.html. Accessed April 4, 2006. This site describes protein chaperones as well as folding enzymes. 

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