The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three scientists who created pulses of light so short they can be used to watch the inner workings of atoms.
Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier will share the 11 million Swedish krona ($1.02 million) prize for devising a way to generate pulses of light so short that they are measured in attoseconds — one quintillionth of a second, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which is responsible for selecting the Nobel laureates in physics, announced Tuesday (Oct. 3).
An attosecond is to a second what a second is to the age of the universe, a miniscule slice of time so short that it can be used to peer at the movements of electrons and molecules.
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