Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to 3 Scientists for Probing Electrons

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced the names of the 2023 Nobel Prize winners in physics.

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light to study electron dynamics in matter.

Attosecond physics is a branch in which scientists work with tiny particles on tiny time scales.

An attosecond is one billionth of a nanosecond. Nobel Prize-winning scientists have devised experiments that can produce extremely fast laser oscillations and can be used to help probe the world at tiny scales.

At the same time, it can also be used in other scientific fields. The science organization will give 1 million US dollars to the scientists who won the Nobel Prize.

Anne L’Huillier is the fifth woman in the history of physics to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.