Trio win Nobel physics prize for opening door to world of electrons

Three scientists shared this year's Nobel Prize in physics for demonstrating that extremely short pulses of light can be used to explore the world of electrons inside atoms and molecules, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Tuesday.The contributions of Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L'Huillier have "enabled the investigation of processes that are so rapid they were previously impossible to follow," the academy said.Agostini, an emeritus professor at the Ohio State University, and Krausz, director at Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and a professor at Ludwig Maximilian …READ FULL ARTICLE