Anne L'Huillier is the 5th women to win the Nobel Prize in physics.

Price motivation

“for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter”

Work

In the world of electrons, changes occur in a few tenths of an attosecond. An attosecond is one billionth of a billionth of a second. Experiments with such short pulses of light make it possible to provide images of processes taking place inside atoms and molecules. In 1987, Anne L’Huillier discovered that many different overtones of light arose when she transmitted infrared laser light through a noble gas. She continued to explore this phenomenon, laying the ground for subsequent breakthroughs in producing attosecond pulses.

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Anamaría Font is one of the 2023 winners of the international l'Oréal-UNESCO prize. Professor of Physics at the Central University of Venezuela, Anamaría Font is renowned for her work in theoretical particle physics, and more specifically for developing the theory of superstrings. This theory provides a unified and coherent description of nature's elementary particles. Her research has made it possible to investigate the consequences of the theory for the structure of matter and quantum gravity, which are also relevant to the description of black holes and the first instants after the big bang.

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