Science

Nobel prize in physics awarded to three scientists for their work on electrons

Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier will share €950,000 prize for their work on producing pulses of light on the attosecond timescale

French-Swedish physicist Anne L'Huillier talks to journalists at Lund University, in Sweden, after being told that she won the Nobel Prize in Physics. Photograph: Ola Torkelsson/AFP/Getty Images
French-Swedish physicist Anne L'Huillier talks to journalists at Lund University, in Sweden, after being told that she won the Nobel Prize in Physics. Photograph: Ola Torkelsson/AFP/Getty Images
Nicola Davis Science correspondent
Tue Oct 03 2023 - 17:49

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