Hungarian-Austrian physicist Ferenc Krausz received the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics in Stockholm on Sunday. A year after the Nobel Prize for Physics went to the Viennese quantum physicist Anton Zeilinger, an Austrian citizen was again awarded the Nobel Prize by the Swedish King Carl XVI. Gustaf the Nobel Prize medal and certificate.
In the Stockholm concert hall, the 61-year-old Krausz, director of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching and professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, was accompanied by his fellow laureates in physics, Pierre Agostini of the Ohio State University (USA). and Anne L’Huillier from Lund University (Sweden).
“A world we can explore now”
Eva Olsson, chair of the Nobel Committee for Physics, recognized the three physics laureates who were honored “for experimental methods for generating attosecond light pulses for the study of the dynamics of electrons in matter.” The attosecond physics they developed “allows us to answer fundamental questions,” the presentation said.
The attosecond is “the time scale of the world of electrons – a world we can now explore,” said Olsson, who recalled Werner Heisenberg saying in 1925 that this world could not be seen. “But thanks to attosecond light pulses, this is slowly starting to change.”
Shortly before 4:30 p.m., the physicists were the first to receive the insignia associated with the award: the Nobel Prize medal and the certificate.
The presentation takes place in alphabetical order according to a strict protocol: After receiving the certificate and the medal, the prize winners shook hands with the King and bowed three times: once towards the King, then towards the academy and finally towards the public .
“We must remember Nobel’s vision more than ever”
The solemn ceremony with approximately 1,500 guests began with the entry of the royal family – next to King Carl XVI. Gustaf and Queen Silvia also Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel – and the Swedish royal song “Kungssången” opened.
In her opening speech, Nobel Foundation President Astrid Söderbergh Widding recalled the beliefs of Nobel Prize founder Alfred Nobel, who “believed in the unique power of science, literature and peace initiatives to change the world for the benefit of humanity.” .
Söderbergh Widding was convinced that “this message is all the more important because today the optimism that prevailed in Nobel’s time is being replaced by radical pessimism or even resignation, and our understanding of our role in science, culture and civil society is being strengthened. demand due to new crises.” Especially now, at a time when the polarization of opinions is increasing, when democracies are being undermined and when wars and conflicts around the world continue to claim so many victims, “we must remember more than ever Nobel’s vision in which we believed in knowledge, enlightenment and the search for truth.”
After the physicists, the prize winners for chemistry, medicine, literature and economics will be honored before the ceremony ends with the Swedish national anthem around 5:15 p.m.
This year’s ceremony took place under heightened security checks at the entrance and was accompanied by a demonstration by climate activists and a solidarity meeting for Nobel Prize winner Narges Mohammadi.
Source: Krone
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