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Nobel Prize in Physics 2023
October 9 , 2023
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- The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier.
- This was awarded for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electro dynamics in matter.
- Their research has given humanity new tools for exploring the world of electrons inside atoms and molecules.
- They have demonstrated a way to create extremely short pulses of light that can be used to measure the rapid processes in which electrons move or change energy.
- Their experiments granted the Laureates to observe extremely brief events that transpire in a few tenths of attoseconds—a quintillionth (10−18) of a second.
- An attosecond is so short that there are as many in one second as there have been seconds since the birth of the universe.
- These brief pulses of light can be used to provide images of what occurs inside atoms and molecules.
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