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Agostini, Pierre

Pierre Agostini,1941– , b. Tunis, Tunisia, French physicist, studied at Prytanée Militaire La Flèche (B.A.) and Université Aix-Marseille (Ph.D., 1968). He is an emeritus professor at Ohio State University. Agonstini, along with Anne L'Huillier and Ferenc Krausz, was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for investigative methods for the study of electron dynamics in matter by generating attosecond pulses of light.

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