“If we want to study really short events, we need special technologies. In the world of electrons, changes occur in a few tenths of an attosecond – an attosecond is so short that there are as many of them in one second as there have been seconds since the birth of the universe,” the Nobel committee said.
“Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Kraus and Anne Lijeu have demonstrated a way to generate extremely short pulses of light that can be used to measure rapid processes involving electron movement or energy change,” the committee said.
Last year, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Alain Aspect from France, John Klauser from the USA and Anton Ceilinger from Austria for discoveries in the field of quantum mechanics.
Hungarian-born researcher Katalina Carrico and US scientist Drew Weisman won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for their work on mRNA (iRNA) vaccines against Covid-19, Sweden’s Royal Charles Institute announced on Monday.
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2023-10-03 12:32:20
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