Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Agostini, Krausz, and L’Huillier
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#3Can someone ELI5 what exactly they discovered?
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I see this:
>The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 was awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier "for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter"
There's also a link to press release: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2023/press-release...
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#5> The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 was awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier "for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter"
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#6For reference:
> Attosecond pulses: Flashes of light that last only a few billionths of a billionth of a second. In one attosecond, light covers a distance of 0.3 nanometers (one nanometer is one millionth of a millimeter). This corresponds to the diameter of a water molecule.
> Femtosecond pulses: Flashes of light that last one millionth of a billionth of a second – about one thousand times longer than attopulses.
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#8L’Huillier, who became the fifth woman to win the physics prize, was teaching when she received the call from the committee, having the advantage of being in the same time zone as the committee.
(On a side note, Bing chat already knows now that she won the prize. Color me impressed.)
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#9Can someone ELI5 what exactly they discovered?
A way to turn a light on and off really really fast.
If you want an ELI13-and-paid-attention-in-science-class then this covers it pretty well https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2023/10/popular-physicspr...
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