The development of attosecond pulses of light allowed researchers to explore the frame-by-frame movement of electrons. The post Physicists Who Explored Tiny Glimpses of Time Win Nobel Prize first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The Nobel Committee has awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light — flashes that last for one-quintillionth of a second. Such fleeting flashes of light open the door to observing the motion of electrons in atoms. “The ability to generate attosecond pulses of light has opened the…