Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’ Huillier get Nobel Prize 2023 in Physics

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.”

As per sources, they will be awarded with the prize money of 11 million Swedish kronor.

According to the press release, “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. Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier 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.”

On Monday, Katalin Kariko of Hungary and Drew Weissman of the United States received the Nobel Prize for work on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology that paved the way for Covid-19 vaccines.