The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023
Awarded on: 2023-10-03
"for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter"
Affiliations:
- The Ohio State University – Columbus, OH, USA
Pierre Agostini
Born: 1941-07-23 in Tunis, French protectorate of Tunisia (now Tunisia)
Gender: male
Field: French physicist (born 1941)
Biography
Pierre Agostini is a French experimental physicist and Emeritus professor at the Ohio State University in the United States, known for his pioneering work in strong-field laser physics and attosecond science. He is especially known for the observation of above-threshold ionization and the invention of the reconstruction of attosecond beating by interference of two-photon transitions (RABBITT) technique for characterization of attosecond light pulses. He was jointly awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics.