Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to team behind short light pulses used to see processes inside atoms

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The three newly-minted Nobel Laureates have "demonstrated a way to create extremely short pulses of light that can be used to measure the rapid processes in which electrons move or change energy," the Academy said.

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00:00 Three scientists have won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work documenting how electrons move around atoms.

00:07 The experiments conducted by Pierre Agastoni, Franz Krauss and Anne Lewillier will help us better understand our universe.

00:15 But there is also hope they will lead to more practical applications, such as better electronics and disease diagnoses.

00:23 Yes, this year's Nobel Prize in Physics is about science at the time scale of attoseconds.

00:31 And what you see here is an attosecond related to one second, which is approximately the heartbeat.

00:38 And the ratio of one second to an attosecond is the same as the ratio of the age of the universe expressed in seconds to one second.

00:49 We are now in the world of electrons.

00:53 Anne Lewillier is only the fifth woman to receive a Nobel Prize in Physics, which comes with a cash prize of around one million euros.

01:02 powerful.

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