Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for giving us the first split-second glimpse into the super-fast world of spinning electrons, a field that could one day lead to better electronics or disease diagnoses.
The award went to Pierre Agostini, emeritus professor at Ohio State University; Ferenc Krausz of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany; and Anne L’Huillier of Lund University in Sweden. They were recognized for their study of the tiny part of each atom that races around the center and that is fundamental to virtually everything: chemistry, physics, our bodies and our gadgets.