Winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics: Pierre Agostini (left), professor emeritus of The Ohio State University, USA, and Ferenc Crow, professor of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Germany Ferenc Krausz (middle) and Professor Anne L'Huillier (right) of Lund University, Sweden.
At about 17:50 on October 3, Beijing time, in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics will be awarded to Pierre Agostini, honorary professor of The Ohio State University in the United States. , Ferenc Krausz, a professor at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Germany, and Anne L'Huillier, a professor at Lund University in Sweden, shared the prize equally in recognition of their achievements in For contributions to "Experimental methods for generating attosecond light pulses to study electron dynamics in matter."
Anne Lullier became the fifth woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics.
The prize money for each Nobel Prize in 2023 will increase from 10 million Swedish kronor last year to 11 million Swedish kronor , approximately RMB 7.2 million.
The Physics Prize is one of the research fields mentioned in the will of Swedish chemist and inventor of nitroglycerin dynamite Alfred Bernhard Nobel to establish the prize.
"The above interest shall be divided into five equal parts, distributed as follows: /- - -/ one to the person who has made the most important discoveries or inventions in the field of physics ..." Nobel signed in Paris on November 27, 1895 In his third and final will, he left most of his wealth to establish a series of awards, the Nobel Prize.
According to data previously released by the official website of The Nobel Prize, between 1901 and 2022, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded 116 times, and a total of 221 people won the award.
The previous youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics was physicist William Lawrence Bragg. In 1915, he was only 25 years old when he and his father won the Nobel Prize. The previous oldest Nobel Prize winner in physics was American physicist Arthur Ashkin, who was 96 years old when he won the Nobel Prize in 2018.
American physicist John Bardeen is the only person to have won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice, in 1956 and 1972.
In 1956, three American physicists, William Bradford Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter H. Brattain, were The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three people for their research on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect.
In 1972, three American physicists, John Bardeen, Leon Neil Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics The three of them shared the prize equally in recognition of their joint proposal of the BCS superconducting theory.
Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize twice, once in 1903 for Physics and once for Chemistry in 1911.
