Nobel prize for physics goes to trio who sliced up time with light

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Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier

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The 2023 Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier for their work on generating ultra-short pulses of light to study how electrons move through matter.

Anne L’Huillier at Lund University in Sweden, who is only the fifth woman to have won the physics Nobel, heard the news when she was midway through teaching her students. “The last half hour of my lecture was a bit difficult to do,” L’Huillier told a press conference on …


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