Swedish-French Anne L'Huillier, our new Nobel laureate in physics, is a professor of Atomic physics at Department of Physics, Lund University. Anne L'Huillier was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics together with Pierre Agostini and Ferenc Krausz.
The prize was awarded for "experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter”. With laser technology, ultra-short light pulses are created that make it possible to look into the microcosm. These "camera flashes" enable the study of the movements of electrons inside atoms and molecules.
When Anne L'Huillier received the message from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on October 3, she was in the middle of a lecture but continued to teach even though "it was a bit difficult to get through it", as she told svt Nyheter.
Watch the interview with Anne L'Huillier made by Lund University: