Anne L'Huillier
French-Swedish Nobel laureate physicist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Anne Geneviève L'Huillier ([an lɥi.je]; born 16 August 1958[1]) is a French physicist,[2] and professor of atomic physics at Lund University in Sweden.
Anne L'Huillier | |
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Born | (1958-08-16) 16 August 1958 (age 65) |
Education | École Normale Supérieure, Fontenay-aux-Roses (BA) Pierre and Marie Curie University (MSc, PhD) |
Known for | High harmonic generation, attosecond physics |
Spouse | Claes-Göran Wahlström [sv] |
Children | 2 |
Awards | UNESCO L'Oréal Award (2011) BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2022) Wolf Prize in Physics (2022) Nobel Prize in Physics (2023) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Attosecond physics |
Institutions | Lund University |
Thesis | Ionisation Multiphotonique et Multielectronique (Multiphoton and Multielectron Ionization) (1986) |
Doctoral advisor | Bernard Cagnac [fr] |
She leads an attosecond physics group which studies the movements of electrons in real time, which is used to understand the chemical reactions on the atomic level.[3] Her experimental and theoretical research are credited with laying the foundation for the field of attochemistry.[4] In 2003 she and her group beat the world record for the shortest laser pulse, of 170 attoseconds.[5]
L'Huillier became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 2004.[2] She has received various physics awards including the Wolf Prize in Physics in 2022[6] and the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2023.[7]