Achieving Dirac's 'bottom-up' understanding of chemistry has become a celebration as well as an institutionalization of the interplay between theory and experiment at the core of physical chemistry.

Hefei’s scientists managed to run the experiment for nearly 18 minutes (1,066 seconds), which is an enormous jump from the previous record of 403 seconds (nearly 7 minutes).

In 1999, he was awarded the National Medal of Science, which cited him “for changing the very nature of modern physical chemistry through his research, teaching and writing, using imaginative ...