Nobel Prize in Physics Goes to Scientists Studying Electrons

Tom Little/ReutersThe Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three scientists behind experiments “exploring the world of electrons inside atoms and molecules,” the Nobel committee said Tuesday. Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier studied the movement of electrons during just a tiny fraction of a second, since electrons move too fast to be examined otherwise. “They have demonstrated a way to create extremely short pulses of light that can be used to measure the rapid processes

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