Anne L’Huillier, PhD, is a French physicist who, along with Pierre Agostini and Ferenc Krausz, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2023. L’Huillier is only the fifth woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics. In 1987 she discovered that shining an infrared laser light through a noble gas interacted with atoms in the gas, causing it to emit pulses of light. These pulses of light are measured in attoseconds, one quintillionth of a second. These extremely short pulses of light can be used to observe subatomic processes.
