Ohio State Professor Wins Nobel Prize In Physics

[ORD_Buckeye]

The 2023 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to a team of scientists who created a ground-breaking technique using lasers to understand the extremely rapid movements of electrons, which were previously thought impossible to follow.

Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier “demonstrated a way to create extremely short pulses of light that can be used to measure the rapid processes in which electrons move or change energy,” the Nobel committee said when the prize was announced in Stockholm on Tuesday.

It praised the laureates for giving “humanity new tools for exploring the world of electrons inside atoms and molecules.”

The three winners used precision lasers to generate ultra-short bursts of light. L’Huillier, a professor at Lund University in Sweden, discovered a new effect from a laser light’s interaction with atoms in a gas. Agostini, a professor at Ohio State University, and Krausz, a professor at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Germany, then demonstrated that this effect can be used to create shorter pulses of light than were previously possible.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/03/europe/nobel-prize-physics-electrons-flashes-light-intl-scn/index.html

 

[Jaxbuck]

They just now thought to use Ultra short bursts?

@BB73 perfected that method decades ago.

 

[Thump]

Yawn

 

[BB73]

They just now thought to use Ultra short bursts?

@BB73 perfected that method decades ago.

Hey! Now just an attosecond …

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

If by chance we win the national championship in football this year, will any other university have won both a Nobel Prize and football championship in the same year?

 

[Steve19]

Someone with time can use the list below to check that against national title winners. According to Ohio State, the following Nobel Prize winners have had some association at some time in their lives, either as students or faculty:

The following alumni and faculty members of The Ohio State University have been recognized as Nobel laureates:

• Paul Flory, 1974, Chemistry (PhD, Ohio State, 1934)
• William A. Fowler, 1983, Physics (BS, Ohio State, 1933)
• Kenneth G. Wilson, 1982, Physics (faculty, 1988-2002)
• C.K. Shum, PhD, 2007, (Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, 1982)

Additionally, Rattan Lal (PhD, Ohio State, 1968; faculty, 1987-present) was a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. (https://oaa.osu.edu/faculty-development-and-honors/awards-and-honors/the-nobel-prize)

Pierre Agostini, now an Emeritus Professor, appears to be the first Nobel Laureate to receive the award while currently affiliated to Ohio State (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_university_affiliation).

You're not going to like what you see in 2018... (https://oaa.osu.edu/faculty-development-and-honors/awards-and-honors/the-nobel-prize)

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Someone with time can use the list below to check that against national title winners. According to Ohio State, the following Nobel Prize winners have had some association at some time in their lives, either as students or faculty:



Pierre Agostini, now an Emeritus Professor, appears to be the first Nobel Laureate to receive the award while currently affiliated to Ohio State (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_university_affiliation).

You're not going to like what you see in 2018... (https://oaa.osu.edu/faculty-development-and-honors/awards-and-honors/the-nobel-prize)

He is the first to be named at Ohio State and for research he conducted here. There's been a few that came close (a British chemist whose name I can't recall), but Agostini is the first. The others were either alums or professors who came to Ohio State after already being named laureates.

 

[BB73]

If by chance we win the national championship in football this year, will any other university have won both a Nobel Prize and football championship in the same year?

From what I can find, it hasn’t happened in the same ‘calendar’ year, but it appears that these schools had the two events happen in consecutive years. In the poll era, it appears that only U-Dub held a football title while getting a Nobel.

Harvard - Claims 1913 in football, awarded 1914 Nobel in Chemistry

Columbia - Claims 1933 in football, awarded 1934 Nobel in Chemistry

Colorado - AP #1 in 1990, awarded 1989 Nobel in Chemistry (NOT concurrently)

Washington - Coaches #1 in 1991, awarded 1992 Nobel in Medicine

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

He is the first to be named at Ohio State and for research he conducted here. There's been a few that came close (a British chemist whose name I can't recall), but Agostini is the first. The others were either alums or professors who came to Ohio State after already being named laureates.

Malcolm Chisholm, maybe? He was very highly regarded in the chemistry world, I believe.