December 01, 2023
Anne L’Huillier, Ferenc Krausz and Pierre Agostini have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2023 for their ground-breaking experiments that led to the creation of attosecond pulses of light. These pulses will help study the behaviour of electrons within atoms and molecules, revolutionising the field of electrodynamics in matter. Electrodynamics is a branch of physics that deals with the effects arising from the interactions of electric currents with magnets, with other currents or with themselves. L’Huillier is a French/ Swedish physicist who has been working on the interaction between short and intense laser fields and atoms. She is the fifth woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics and works as a professor at Lund University in Sweden.
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