The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today announced that the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics is being awarded to three scientists for discovering a way to study the world at a level previously thought impossible. The official citation reads: “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter”. The 2023 Nobel prize will be shared equally by:
Pierre Agostini, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
Ferenc Krausz, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
and
Anne L’Huillier, Lund University, Sweden
For more information, see the 2023 announcement on the Nobel Prize webpage.