Nobel Prize winners in Physics announced

(Patria) - The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three scientists - the winners are Pierre Agostini (USA), Ferenc Krausz (Germany), and Anne L’Huillier (Sweden).

This is the second Nobel Prize awarded this week.

As explained by Professor Eva Olsson from the Nobel Committee for Physics, the ability to study attosecond light pulses has opened the door to the world of electrons, which we are now beginning to explore.

- Let's take a second, the duration of a heartbeat. If you divide it into a thousand parts, then into a thousand parts, then into a thousand parts, then again, and then once more - you enter the time it takes for an atom to move.

If you divide it into another thousand parts, you enter the world of electrons. And that is attosecond physics - said Olsson.

Yesterday, the prestigious prize in medicine or physiology was awarded to scientists Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their contributions to the development of mRNA vaccines against COVID.

The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded since 1901, and only four have gone to women. The youngest laureate was Lawrence Bragg, who was awarded the prize with his father in 1915 at the age of 25.