Nobel prize for physics goes to trio who sliced up time with light

The 2023 Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier for his or her work on producing ultra-short pulses of sunshine to review how electrons transfer by means of matter.

Anne L’Huillier at Lund University in Sweden, who is barely the fifth lady to have gained the physics Nobel, heard the news when she was halfway by means of instructing her college students. “The last half hour of my lecture was a bit difficult to do,” L’Huillier informed a press convention on …