The popular science background that the Nobel organization produced is a readable explanation: https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2023/10/popular-physicspr...
Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Agostini, Krausz, and L’Huillier
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Photo from that lecture at Lund University, Sweden: https://twitter.com/lantisfjantis/status/1709146065985777767 This year's Nobel laureate in physics lectures us after (!!) being notified of her win!!
Seems like maybe the university could spring for a laser pointer instead of a long stick.
I expect they did spring for it when the room was last remodelled, but since then for sure the batteries have died several times, some lecturer brought it with them to their office by mistake and forgot it there, and the students have stolen it.
The stick however, it remains.
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#103If the pulses are so short, would it be possible to create an EUV light source from this technology?
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#104Swedish paper reported that L’Huillier was lecturing when the announcement took place, and just proceeded with the lesson as if nothing happened. Kept their cool! https://www.dn.se/sverige/nobelpristagaren-anne-l-huillier-f...
Just had a call with an old classmate that works in the same department (and even same division). He recounted another fun anecdote: The PhD students in the department had set up a room to watch the Nobel committee’s press conference as usual. They were pleasantly surprised when their professor started talking from the room next door. So she kept her cool to the very end. :)
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#105If the pulses are so short, would it be possible to create an EUV light source from this technology?
Lithography requires the highest possible average intensity, while the pulse length is irrelevant. The laser-driven tin plasma sources used in EUV lithography produce around 7 orders of magnitude more power than the most powerful sources based on high harmonic generation.
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#108Somehow I had this brief image of some ancient, stooped and heavily wrinkled codger being interviewed by the BBC seemingly interrupted while working in the field: "Another Nobel for the study of the electron? That tiny lepton? In this day and age? They should encourage people to work on quantum gravity."
I actually think this work is cool so I can't explain that passing image. Sometimes our brains are weird.
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Academic politics is something else. I thought for awhile those guys got lucky and skip office politics. Then I realize that PhD level IQs + pressure to get into the fancy journals means that the politics is 古典小說 tier.
If academic is all politics and favoritism then wouldn't that also apply to the prizes at the top? The people deciding or at least confirming scientific breakthroughs for stuff like nobel prizes must be scientists too, no? So if it's all politics, why are they immune to it?
> then wouldn't that also apply to the prizes at the top?
It does, but the politics and favoritism is happening within a heavily selected group of very, very competent people. Plenty of people get snubbed for petty reasons, but they get snubbed in favor of others who are also doing Nobel-worthy work.