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The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded for discoveries that gave humanity new tools for exploring the world of electrons inside of atoms and molecules. Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L´Huillier have conducted experiments in which they demonstrate a way of producing pulses of light that last for such a short period of time that they are measured in attoseconds. An attosecond is so short that there as many of them in a second as there are seconds in the entire lifetime of the universe.

Syukuro (Suki) Manabe (真鍋 淑郎) S uki Manabe was born 21 September 1931. He is a Japanese-educated American meteorologist and climatologist who pioneered the use of computers to simulate global climate change and natural climate variations. Suki was born in Shingu Village, Uma District, Ehime Prefecture, Japan. He enjoyed his childhood growing up in the Shikoku…

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1999 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to Professor Gerardus ‘t Hooft and Professor Emeritus Martinus J.G. Veltman for “elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics.” A theory to reckon with The structure of particle physics is described using…

Fritz Zernike receives his Nobel Prize from Sweden’s King Gustaf VI Adolf on 10 December 1953. Fritz Zernike and Sweden’s Queen Louise at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 1953. From left: Medecine laureate Fritz Lipmann with his wife Elfreda, physics laureate Frits Zernike and chemistry laureate Hermann Staudinger with his wife Magda at the Nobel…

Links to other sites Chemistry laureate Glenn T. Seaborg (middle) and his wife Helen converse with physics laureate Manne Siegbahn during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden, 9 December 1951.

Nobel Prize Conversations  “If children are not curious they will not be able to work” Some people manage to retain the relentless curiosity of a child into adulthood, keeping them on a constant quest of exploration. In this podcast episode, conducted in May 2022, we meet Giorgio Parisi, who tells us about his journey…