French physicists part of trio scooping Nobel Prize for work on electrons

The Nobel Prize for Physics went to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L'Huillier, 3 October 2023. © Nobel Prize Outreach

Three atomic physicists, France's Pierre Agostini, Hungarian-Austrian Ferenc Krausz and French-Swedish Anne L'Huillier, on Tuesday won the Nobel Physics Prize for research into tools for exploring electrons inside atoms and molecules.

The trio was honoured "for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter," the jury said.