This Tuesday, starting at 11:45 a.m., the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2024. In 2023, the winners were the Frenchwoman Anne L’Huillier, the Frenchman Pierre Agostini, and the Hungarian Ferenc Krausz. The Academy recognized them for developing new tools to measure and observe the tiniest matter in motion. The jury then highlighted that the three winners had created extremely short pulses of light, which can be used to measure or photograph the fleeting processes in which electrons move. They are events that occur in attoseconds, trillionths of a second: the shortest time scale captured by humans.
The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded 117 times to 225 Nobel laureates between 1901 and 2023. John Bardeen is the only laureate to have received the Nobel Prize in Physics twice, in 1956 and 1972. L’Huillier, professor at the University of Lund (Sweden) is the fifth woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics since 1901. The award is worth 11 million Swedish crowns, about 950,000 euros. Between the pools To receive the award this year is the Spaniard Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, from MIT, for pioneering theoretical and experimental contributions to the physics of graphene.
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