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New Delhi, Oct 3: Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier have been honoured with the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.
The honour was presented in recognition of their “experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.”
The three joint winners have given humanity “new tools for exploring the world of electrons inside atoms and molecules. They 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,” the Nobel announcement read.
An attosecond is an incredibly brief time interval, equal to one quintillionth of a second, which is 10^18 seconds (1 attosecond is equivalent to 0.000000000000000001 second).
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Nobel Prize in Physics each year to the physicists who have made the most significant contributions to humanity.
The Nobel Prize carries a cash reward of 11 million Swedish Kronor (1 million US dollars). This prize money is given from the estate of Swedish citizen Alfred Nobel, the founder of the Nobel Prize, who passed away in 1896.
