Three researchers receive the Nobel Prize for their experiments with light pulses that make rapid processes in atoms visible. A scientist from Garching near Munich is also being honored. Why their results are revolutionary.
The Nobel Prize in Physics goes to two men and a woman, only the fifth in the history of the physics prize. Honored this year are Pierre Agostini from the Ohio State University, Ferenc Krausz from the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and Anne L’Huillier from the University of Lund.