This time the Physics Nobel Prize was jointly awarded to American scientist Pierre Agostini, German scientist Ferenc Krausz, and Swedish scientist Anne L. Huillier. Their discovery is also highly commendable. Where earlier it was considered impossible to capture the amazingly fast movement of electrons, this discovery of these three has now made it possible. Pierre, Ferenc, and Annie are being praised everywhere. But the question here is, how much do you know about these three and this Physics Nobel Prize? Probably very little, so let's know about this. You can know about it in detail further…
Who are these three winners?
Pierre Augustini is a professor of physics at Ohio State University, USA.
Ferenc Krausz is Director of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Germany
Anne L. Huillier is a Professor of Molecular Physics at Lund University, Sweden.
Who has received the Physics Nobel Prize for discovery?
Pierre Augustin, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L. Huillier have discovered ways to generate attosecond pulses of light to study electron mobility in materials. It can be used to measure fast processes in which electrons move or change energy.
Who selects the winners?
If we talk about who chooses the winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics, then the answer is the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded since 1901 through this academy, established in 1739.
Must know these things:-
A total of 116 Nobel Prizes have been awarded in Physics since 1901.
While Lawrence Bragg has been honored with the Physics Prize at the youngest age (at the age of 25), Arthur Ashkin has been the oldest (at the age of 96) to receive this award.
4 women have also been honored with this physical award, including Marie Curie (the year 1903), Maria Goeppert-Mayer (the year 1963), Donna Strickland (the year 2018), and Andrea Ghez (the year 2020).
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