The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 was awarded to French-Hungarian scientist Pierre Agostini, the Austrian-Hungarian Ferenc Krausz and French-Swedish Anne L’Huillier.
The three researchers received the award for looking at electrons in atoms during the tiniest of split seconds.
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Secretary General Hans Ellegren said the scientists’ work had yielded “experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.”
Agostini is a researcher at The Ohio State University, Krausz at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany, and L’Huillier works at Lund University in Sweden.
“Sorry, I am not very good at speaking but that is because I am very touched at the moment,” said L’Huiller, speaking to the committee remotely after the award was announced.
The physics prize comes a day after Hungarian-American Katalin Kariko and American Drew Weissman won the Nobel Prize in medicine for work that made possible the creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.
Three scientists jointly won the physics prize last year for proving a once-doubted phenonomon that tiny particles could retain a connection with each other even when separated.
Nobel Prize announcements are set to continue with the chemistry prize on Wednesday, and the literature prize on Thursday. Friday will see the Nobel Peace Prize and the economics award next Monday.
More to follow…
rc/kb (AFP, AP, dpa, Reuters)
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