Cosmos Magazine

Unveiling the secrets of electrons

NOBEL PRIZES 2023 PHYSICS DIGEST MEDICINE

THREE EXPERIMENTALISTS have jointly won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work in probing the behaviour of electrons.

Anne L'Huillier, Pierre Agostini and Ferenc Krausz helped create the tools necessary to make “films” that capture electrons' extremely rapid movements inside atoms, by using pulses of ultrafast laser light.

Consider, if you will,

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