Three scientists win Nobel Prize in Physics

Three scientists have been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in physics “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.”

Pierre Agostini of The Ohio State University in the U.S.; Ferenc Krausz of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany; and Anne L’Huillier of Lund University in Sweden won the award.

Hans Ellegren, the secretary-general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, announced the prize Tuesday (October 3) in Stockholm.

The physics prize comes a day after scientists Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman from Hungary and the United States respectively won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries enabling the development of mRNA Covid-19 vaccines.

Last year, three scientists — Alain Aspect, John F Clauser and Anton Zeilinger — shared the Nobel Prize in physics for their work on quantum information science.

The Nobel Prizes carry a cash award of 11 million Swedish kronor ($1 million). The money comes from a bequest left by the prize’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, who died in 1896._Agencies