2023-10-03 09:56:00
The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded jointly on Tuesday to Franco-Swedish atomic physics professor Anne L’Huillier, French physicist Pierre Agostini and Austro-Hungarian physicist Ferenc Krausz for their work on the movement of electrons inside atoms and molecules, announced the Nobel committee of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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The researchers were rewarded for creating “extremely short pulses of light that can be used to measure the rapid processes during which electrons move or change energy,” the jury said.
Anne L’Huiller, 65, teaches at Lund University (Sweden), while Pierre Agostini works at Ohio State University (United States) and Ferenc Krausz directs the Max-Planck Institute quantum optics, in Germany.
Anne L’Huillier, fifth woman crowned since 1901
“It’s just fantastic, I was giving a lesson, and I only picked up my phone on the 3rd or 4th call during my break,” commented Anne L’Huillier live, interviewed during the ceremony . “I am very touched, few women have obtained this prize, it is very special,” continued the woman who had already won the prestigious Wolf prize last year.
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This is only the fifth time that a woman has won the Nobel Prize in physics since 1901, following Marie Curie (1903), Maria Goeppert Mayer (1963), Donna Strickland (2018) and Andrea Ghez (2020).
Already an award-winning Frenchman in 2022
Last year, a Frenchman, Alain Aspect, was already among the winners, alongside the American John Clauser and the Austrian Anton Zeilinger, three pioneers of the revolutionary mechanisms of quantum physics.
They were rewarded for their pioneering work on “quantum entanglement”, a mechanism where two quantum particles are perfectly correlated, regardless of the distance separating them.
Monday, the Nobel Prize in Medicine recognized the work of Hungarian researcher Katalin Kariko and her American colleague Drew Weissman in the development of messenger RNA vaccines, decisive in the fight once morest Covid-19.
A check for 920,000 euros for the winners
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be awarded on Wednesday, before the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday and the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in Oslo. The latest prize, the Nobel Prize in Economics, will be revealed on Monday October 9.
For the winners of the 2023 vintage, the check accompanying the prize is now for eleven million crowns (920,000 euros), the highest nominal value (in Swedish currency) in the more than century-old history of the Nobels.
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