The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced today that it has decided to award the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics to American scientist Pierre Agostini, German scientist Ferenc Krausz, and Swedish scientist Anne L’Huillier for “experimental methods of generating attosecond light pulses for the study of electron dynamics in matter.”
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[List of Nobel Prize winners in physics in recent years]
In 2022, the Nobel Prize in Physics will be awarded to French physicist Alain Aspect, American theoretical and experimental physicist John F. Clauser, and Austrian scientist Anton Zeilinger in recognition of their contributions to quantum information science research.
In 2021, Japanese-American scientist Syukuro Manabe and German scientist Klaus Hasselmann shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics with Italian scientist Giorgio Parisi for their pioneering contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems.
In 2020, British scientist Roger Penrose shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for proving that black holes are a direct result of Einstein's general theory of relativity. German scientist Reinhard Genzel and American scientist Andrea Ghez discovered supermassive objects in the center of the Milky Way.
In 2019, American scientist James Peebles and Swiss scientists Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz were awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for their contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and the Earth's place in the universe.
In 2018, for their breakthrough inventions in the field of laser physics, American Bell Labs scientist Arthur Ashkin, who invented optical tweezers, Gérard Mourou, a scientist at Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France, who invented chirped pulse amplification technology (CPA), and Donna Strickland, a scientist at the University of Waterloo in Canada, were awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics.
In 2017, American scientists Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne were awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for their decisive contributions to the LIGO detector (Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory) and gravitational wave detection.
In 2016, scientists David Solis, Duncan Haldane, and Michael Kosterlitz, all born in the United Kingdom and working at three different universities in the United States, were awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics for their theoretical discoveries in topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.