The laureates were honoured for their groundbreaking work in developing experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light, enabling the study of electron dynamics in matter.
In addition to the prestigious recognition, the winners will receive a Nobel Prize diploma and a gold medal.
Here is a list of the Nobel Physics Prize winners over the past 10 years:
2023: Pierre Agostini (France), Ferenc Krausz (Hungary-Austria) and Anne L’Huillier (France-Sweden), for research into tools for exploring electrons inside atoms and molecules.
2022: Alain Aspect (France), John Clauser (US) and Anton Zeilinger (Austria), for groundbreaking work in the field of quantum mechanics.
2021: Syukuro Manabe (US-Japan) and Klaus Hasselmann (Germany), for climate models, and Giorgio Parisi (Italy) for work on the theory of disordered materials and random processes.
2020: Roger Penrose (Britain), Reinhard Genzel (Germany) and Andrea Ghez (US), for their research into black holes.
2019: James Peebles (Canada-US), for discoveries explaining the evolution of the universe after the Big Bang, and Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (Switzerland), for the first discovery of an exoplanet.
2018: Arthur Ashkin (US), Gerard Mourou (France) and Donna Strickland (Canada), for inventions in the laser field used for advanced precision instruments in corrective eye surgery and industry.
2017: Barry Barish, Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss (US), for the discovery of gravitational waves, a phenomenon predicted by Albert Einstein a century ago as part of his theory of general relativity.
2016: David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz (Britain), for their study of strange phenomena in unusual phases, or states, of matter, such as superconductors, superfluids and thin magnetic films.
2015: Takaaki Kajita (Japan) and Arthur McDonald (Canada), for their work on neutrinos.
2014: Isamu Akasaki (Japan), Hiroshi Amano (Japan) and Shuji Nakamura (US), for their work on LED lamps.
