Chemistry
Using Flash Photolysis to Measure Fast Radical Reaction Kinetics
Quick fact
Flash photolysis, developed in 1949 by Ronald Norrish and George Porter, was the first technique to directly observe radicals and other reaction intermediates on sub-millisecond timescales, a breakthrough that earned them the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967.
Why this is interesting
How do chemists measure processes that last only a billionth of a second, faster than the blink of an eye?