Three Recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics: Agostini, Krausz, and Lullier

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The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L'Huillier.

They were recognized for their contributions related to the experimental method of generating attosecond (one hundred quintillionth of a second) pulse light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.

The Nobel Committee of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on the 3rd (local time) that these three individuals would receive the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Agostini is affiliated with Ohio State University in the United States, Krausz with the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Germany, and L'Huillier with Lund University in Sweden.

The laureates will receive a prize of 11 million kronor (approximately 1.35 billion KRW).

The previous day, Katalin Karik?, a professor at the University of Szeged in Hungary, and Drew Weissman, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in the United States, who contributed to the development of the COVID-19 messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

The Nobel Committee plans to announce the winners of the Chemistry Prize on the 4th, the Literature Prize on the 5th, the Peace Prize on the 6th, and the Economic Sciences Prize on the 9th, following the Physics Prize announcement.

The Nobel Prize ceremonies are held during "Nobel Week," which includes December 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death, in Stockholm, Sweden (for Physiology or Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Literature, and Economic Sciences) and Oslo, Norway (for the Peace Prize).

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