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Pierre Agostini
Developing attosecond light-pulse methods that made electron motion accessible to experiment.
Above-threshold ionisation · Pulse measurement
- Born
- 23 July 1941
- Birthplace
- Tunis, Tunisia
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Pierre Agostini
Pierre Agostini is a French physicist who shared the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier.
Early life
Schooling
Completed secondary studies at the Prytanée national militaire in France.
University
Studied physics and completed a doctorate at Aix-Marseille.
Career
- 1969
CEA Saclay
Joined the French research centre.
- 2001
Attosecond experiments
His team generated and measured a train of extremely short pulses.
- 2005
Ohio State
Became a professor in the United States.
Contributions
Above-threshold ionisation
Helped observe electrons absorbing more photons than needed to escape an atom.
Pulse measurement
Developed methods for characterising attosecond pulse trains.
Nobel Prize
Shared the physics award for experimental attosecond methods.
Beyond the lab
Intellectual friendship
Recalled sharing Chinese meals and conversations about physics and everyday life with theorist Howard Reiss.
Public recognition
Spoke in 2024 about adjusting to the attention and public role that followed his Nobel Prize.
Sources & photo credit
Biography and career ↗Further source ↗Nobel conversation ↗Autobiography ↗Photo: US Embassy Sweden. CC BY 2.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
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