Technique to see the ultrafast world of electrons wins 2023 physics Nobel

Glimpses of the ultrafast world of electrons are changing scientists’ vision of the inner workings of atoms and molecules. The 2023 Nobel Prize in physics goes to three physicists who illuminated this realm with ultrashort pulses of light, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced October 3.

Physicists Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier will split the 11 million Swedish kronor (about $1 million) prize, awarded “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.”

Physicists Pierre Agostini (left), Ferenc Krausz (middle) and Anne L’Huillier (right) have won the 2023 Nobel Prize in physics for their work creating ultrashort pulses

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