2023-10-03 10:34:39
The trio of scientists Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier have won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics.
The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to the French Pierre Agostini and Anne L’Huillieras well as the Austrian Ferenc Krausz “for their experiments which provided humanity with new tools to explore the world of electronsinside atoms and molecules,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Tuesday.
The trio’s work has made it possible to find a way to “create extremely short pulses of light, which can be used to measure the rapid processes in which electrons move or change energy”, she specifies on the social network X (ex-Twitter). “The contributions of the laureates made it possible to examine processes so rapid that they were previously impossible to follow,” welcomes the Academy.
Pierre Agostini works at Ohio State University in Columbus in the United States, and Anne L’Huillier at Lund University in Sweden, the country of which she also has nationality.
A predominantly male award
Only four women have won the Nobel Prize in physics since 1901: Marie Curie (1903), Maria Goeppert Mayer (1963), Donna Strickland (2018) et Andrea Ghez (2020).
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be awarded on Wednesday, before the prize Nobel Prize in Literature Thursday and the price Nobel Peace Prize Friday in Oslo. Most recent price Nobel Prize in Economics will be revealed 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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