John Adoyi
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden has awarded Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for “experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.”
The Nobel Prize for Physics is awarded, according to the will of Alfred Nobel, “to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind” in the field of physics.
Join our WhatsApp ChannelAnnouncing the award on Tuesday, the Academy said: “The three Nobel Laureates in Physics 2023 are being recognised for their experiments, which have given humanity new tools for exploring the world of electrons inside atoms and molecules.”
“The laureates’ experiments have produced pulses of light so short that they are measured in attoseconds, thus demonstrating that these pulses can be used to provide images of processes inside atoms and molecules,” The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences added.
The trio will receive their prize, consisting of a diploma, a gold medal, and $1 million at a formal ceremony in Stockholm on December 10, 2023.
L’Huillier is based at Sweden’s Lund University; Krausz is at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and the Ludwig-Maximillians University of Munich in Germany; and Agostini is at Ohio State University in the US.
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The Physics prize is the second to be awarded this year, with the prize for Physiology or Medicine, jointly awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman kicking off the awards on Monday.
Only five women have been awarded the Physics Prize out of 222 Laureates, with L’Huillier being the fifth woman after Marie Curie, the first female Nobel Laureate, Maria Goeppert, winning the Prize in 1963 as the second female. Donna Strickland (2018), and Andrea Ghez (2020) are other females that have won the Prize.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 was awarded jointly to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.”
The Nobel Prize, endowed by Alfred Nobel, a Swedish inventor and entrepreneur, is a prestigious international accolade presented by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden. This distinguished award is bestowed upon experts in diverse fields. The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine marks the initiation of a series of prestigious awards, with Literature, Physics, and Chemistry prizes to soon follow.
Since its inception, 117 Nobel Prizes for Physics have been awarded from 1901 to 2022. Among the recipients, five outstanding women have been honored with the Medicine Prize. Each laureate is awarded a medal, a personal diploma, and a monetary prize as part of this esteemed recognition.
