{"id":173374,"date":"2023-10-03T14:23:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T19:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/physicists-who-built-ultrafast-attosecond-lasers-win-nobel-prize"},"modified":"2023-10-03T14:23:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T19:23:08","slug":"physicists-who-built-ultrafast-attosecond-lasers-win-nobel-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/physicists-who-built-ultrafast-attosecond-lasers-win-nobel-prize","title":{"rendered":"Physicists who built ultrafast \u2018attosecond\u2019 lasers win Nobel Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-who-built-ultrafast-attosecond-lasers-win-nobel-prize2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three physicists \u2014 Pierre Agostini at Ohio State University, US, Ferenc Krausz at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, and Anne L\u2019Huillier at Lund University, Sweden \u2014 for their research into attosecond pulses of light.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41566-022-01031-w\">Attosecond physics<\/a> allows scientists to look at the very smallest particles at the very shortest timescales (an attosecond is one-quintillionth of a second, or one-billionth of a nanosecond). The winners all developed experiments to be able to produce these ultrafast laser pulses, which can be used to probe our world at the smallest scales and have applications across chemistry, biology and physics.<\/p>\n<p>The prize was announced this morning by the Royal Swedish Academy of <i>Science<\/i>s, in Stockholm, Sweden. The winners share a prize of 11 million Swedish kroner (US$1 million).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three physicists \u2014 Pierre Agostini at Ohio State University, US, Ferenc Krausz at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, and Anne L\u2019Huillier at Lund University, Sweden \u2014 for their research into attosecond pulses of light. Attosecond physics allows scientists to look [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}