Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, Anne L’Huillier
New delhi,Octo 3 : The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, announced Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2023.
The award has been given for 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.
NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS FOR 2023 ANNOUNCEMENT
An attosecond is an astonishingly short unit of time, equivalent to one quintillionth of a second, or 10^18 seconds (1 attosecond equals 0.000000000000000001 second).
The Nobel Prize in Physics is a yearly award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to those who have made the most outstanding contributions to humankind in the field of physics.
The tradition has been ongoing since 1901, with the prize being awarded 116 times to 222 laureates between 1901 and 2022. Notably, John Bardeen is the only laureate who has received the Nobel Prize in Physics twice, in 1956 and 1972.
The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded according to the will of Alfred Bernhard Nobel, the Swedish inventor and industrialist. The award recognizes those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind in the field of physics.
The announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physics is part of the Nobel season, which also includes the announcement of other Nobel Prizes such as Literature, Physiology or Medicine, and Economic Sciences.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2023 was recently awarded to Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman for their pioneering work on mRNA vaccines, which have played a crucial role in combating Covid-19.
The Nobel Prizes carry a cash award of 11 million Swedish kronor ($1 million), drawn from a bequest left by Alfred Nobel, who passed away in 1896.
The laureates are invited to receive their awards at ceremonies on December 10th, the anniversary of Nobel’s death. The peace prize ceremony takes place in Oslo, while the other awards are presented in Stockholm.
-PTI
