COLUMBUS – A member of the Ohio State University faculty has won a share of the Nobel Prize in physics.
Pierre Agostini, emeritus professor in the OSU Department of Physics, shares the 2023 prize with Hungarian-born Ferenc Krausz and French-born Anne L’Huillier for studying how electrons zip around the atom during in the tiniest fractions of seconds, a field that could one day lead to better electronics or disease diagnoses.
Congratulations to Emeritus Professor Pierre Agostini, who has won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his study of electron dynamics in matter.
“The Nobel Prize is the pinnacle of scientific achievement,” said Acting President Peter Mohler. “All of us at Ohio State celebrate this… pic.twitter.com/hkmhefmZUB
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Agostini was a visiting scientist at the Brookhaven National Laboratory between 2002 and 2004 and became professor of physics at Ohio State in 2005.
Their work with the tiny part of each atom that races around the center is fundamental to virtually everything: chemistry, physics, our bodies and our gadgets.
Electrons move around so fast that they have been out of reach of human efforts to isolate them, but by looking at the tiniest fraction of a second possible, scientists now have a “blurry” glimpse of them and that opens up whole new sciences, experts said.