Nobel Prize – physics

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier. They have all researched in electrons in flashes of light. 65-year-old Anne L’Huillier was born in France and is a researcher at Lund University in Sweden. Pierre Agostini, whose age and place of birth are not known, is a graduate in France and a retired professor from Ohio State University in the United States, while 61-year-old Ferenc Krausz was born in Hungary and researches at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany. They receive the prize for their “experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter”, says the motivation from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Letters. Attosecond pulse is used to capture the movements of electrons inside atoms. This is known as attophysics. The three researchers share the prize of SEK 11 million./ritzau/TT