Journalists wait for the announcement of the winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics at Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on Oct. 3, 2023.
Scientists Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L'Huillier won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for "experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter", the award-giving body said on Tuesday.
The prize, which was raised this year to 11 million Swedish crowns (about $1 million), is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Physics is the second Nobel to be awarded this week after Hungarian scientist Katalin Kariko and U.S. colleague Drew Weissman won the medicine prize for making mRNA molecule discoveries that paved the way for COVID-19 vaccines.
Announced on consecutive weekdays in early October, the physics prize announcement will be followed by ones for chemistry, literature, peace and economics, the latter a later addition to the original line-up.
Persons:
Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, Anne L'Huillier, Katalin Kariko, Drew Weissman, Alfred Nobel, Albert Einstein, Alain Aspect, John Clauser, Anton Zeilinger, Einstein
Organizations:
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences . Physics
Locations:
Stockholm, COVID