New Delhi: The announcement that Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2023 was made by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on October 3, 2023.
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 #NobelPrize in Physics to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.” pic.twitter.com/6sPjl1FFzv— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 3, 2023
This recognition is due to their “experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.”
2023 physics laureate Pierre Agostini succeeded in producing and investigating a series of consecutive light pulses, in which each pulse lasted just 250 attoseconds. At the same time, his 2023 co-laureate Ferenc Krausz was working with another type of experiment, one that made it… pic.twitter.com/pEFAM0ErNP
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 3, 2023
This year’s #NobelPrize laureate in physics Anne L’Huillier discovered that many different overtones of light arose when she transmitted infrared laser light through a noble gas.
Each overtone is a light wave with a given number of cycles for each cycle in the laser light. They… pic.twitter.com/bJWD4kiE5Z
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 3, 2023
The three awardees have provided humans with cutting-edge instruments for probing the hidden realm of electrons inside atoms and molecules. The Nobel Assembly recognised their work because it showed how to generate ultrashort light pulses, which can be used to monitor the speed with which electrons travel or their energy level changes.
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences presents the Nobel Prize in Physics annually to an individual or individuals who have made the most significant contributions to human knowledge in the area of physics that year.
In recognition of their seminal contributions to quantum information theory and the demonstration of the violation of Bell inequalities using entangled photons, John F. Clauser, Alain Aspect, and Anton Zeilinger were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2022.
The Nobel Prize in Physics is announced as part of the Nobel season, which also includes the announcement of awards in chemistry, literature, medicine, and economics.
The prize money comes from a bequest made by Alfred Nobel, who died away in 1896.
On the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death (December 10), the laureates are obliged to visit ceremonies to accept their prizes. While all other prizes are handed out in Stockholm, the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony is held in Oslo.
Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman recently won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their pioneering work on mRNA vaccines, which helped fight COVID-19.
Until October 9, it will be announced who will receive the Nobel Prizes in Chemistry, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences.
