The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Science goes in its fifteenth edition to three pioneers of ultrafast laser physics: Anne L´Huillier, Paul Corkum and Ferenc Krausz.
In its citation for this year's award, the prize committee concluded that the awardees “have shown how to observe and control the motion of electrons in atoms, molecules, and solids with ultrashort light pulses on time scales of about one hundred attoseconds. One attosecond is approximately the time for light to travel across an atom and is the natural scale for electronic motion in matter. This time scale was previously inaccessible to experimental studies due to the lack of light pulses with short enough duration.”

We, the attoworld team, sincerely congratulate Ferenc Krausz and his colleagues on this award!

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