Method and system for ultrafast photoelectron microscope
- Filed
- 1 April 2005
- Granted
- 26 December 2006
- Assignee
- California Institute of Technology
- Co-inventors
- Vladimir Lobastov
Physical chemistry
Ahmed Zewail: inventions and patents
Known for Studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopyNationality Born in Damanhur, Egypt26 February 1946 to 2 August 2016
Ahmed Zewail, born in Damanhur, Egypt, received the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry alone for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy. He was at the California Institute of Technology at the time of the award and died in Pasadena in 2016. He and Vladimir Lobastov are the named inventors on US Patent 7,154,091 for an ultrafast photoelectron microscope, assigned to Caltech.1,2
Patents
Inventions
- Femtosecond spectroscopy of transition states. Use of ultrashort laser pulses to observe the transition states of chemical reactions, recognised by the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.1
Recognition
- 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (full prize), for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy1
Sources
- Nobel Prize Outreach, Ahmed Zewail, Facts (accessed 2026-10-27)
- Google Patents, US7154091B2 Method and system for ultrafast photoelectron microscope (accessed 2026-10-27)