2023-10-03 09:52:00
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics goes, among others, to the Austro-Hungarian physicist Ferenc Krausz, who works at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Munich, for experimental methods that generate attosecond light pulses to study electron dynamics in matter. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced this on Tuesday in Stockholm.
Krausz carried out some of his most important work at the Technical University (TU) of Vienna. The physicist Pierre Agostini, who works in the USA, and the physicist Anne L’Huillier, who works in Sweden, are honored with Krausz. This year the prize is endowed with eleven million Swedish crowns (926,000 euros), and the Nobel Foundation has increased the prize sum by one million crowns compared to last year.
The prize is presented every year on December 10th, the anniversary of the death of the founder Alfred Nobel. Last year the award went to the Austrian quantum physicist Anton Zeilinger, who was honored together with the French physicist Alain Aspect and his US colleague John Clauser “for experiments with entangled photons, proof of the violation of Bell’s inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.”
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