Analysis for Science Librarians of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics: The Possibility and Promise of Attosecond Physics

ABSTRACT

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Anne L’Huillier, Pierre Agostini, and Ferenc Krausz for their pioneering work using laser harmonics to observe attosecond-scale electron phenomena. L’Huillier pioneered the background experimental techniques in harmonics, Agostini provided an important analysis technique that confirmed the pulses were at the attosecond-scale, and Krausz was the first to isolate an attosecond pulse. This paper describes the citation patterns of each scientist in the context of their research using data from the Web of Science and Scopus.

KEYWORDS:

• Anne L’Huillier
• attosecond physics
• Ferenc Krausz
• Pierre Agostini
• Nobel Prize in Physics

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