Awarded Davisson–Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics (2024).
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Anne L'Huillier
Anne Geneviève L'Huillier is a French physicist. She is a professor of atomic physics at Lund University in Sweden.
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science · French-Swedish Nobel laureate physicist (born 1958) · physicist · university teacher · nuclear physicist · also Anne L'Huillier, A. L'Huillier, A L'Huillier, L'Huillier, L'Huillier A, L'Huillier A.
Born 16 August 1958 · Q565544
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2024· 3 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Bordeaux (2024).
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Awarded Commanders Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star (2024).
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2023· 5 entries
Reuters: Le Nobel de physique aux Français Pierre Agostini et Anne L'Huillier et à Ferenc Krausz
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (2023).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University Paris-Saclay (2023).
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Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (2023).
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EurekAlert!: Anne L'Huillier, winner of the Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences. (IMAGE)
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2022· 4 entries
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (2022).
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Awarded BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2022).
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Awarded Wolf Prize in Physics (2022).
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Received the Wolf Prize in Physics for "pioneering contributions to ultrafast laser science and attosecond physics" jointly with Ferenc Krausz and Paul Corkum
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2021· 2 entries
Awarded Max Born Award (2021).
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L'Huillier was awarded the Optical Society of America Max Born Award for "pioneering work in ultrafast laser science and attosecond physics, realizing and understanding high harmonic generation and applying it to time-re
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2019· 1 entry
Was recognized with the Prize for Fundamental Aspects of Quantum Electronics and Optics, announced by the European Physical Society
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2017· 1 entry
By experimentally uncovering the contribution of shake-up electrons
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2015· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Jena (2015).
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2014· 1 entry
Awarded Emmy Noether Distinction for Women in Physics (2014).
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2013· 3 entries
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the Pierre and Marie Curie University (2013).
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Awarded Zeiss Research Award (2013).
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Was awarded the Carl-Zeiss Research Award, the Blaise Pascal Medal and an Honorary Degree at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), Paris
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2011· 1 entry
Awarded L'Oréal-UNESCO Award For Women in Science (2011).
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2010· 1 entry
An experiment led by Ferenc Krausz at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, highlighted a discrepancy between theory and experimental results concerning photoemission delays in neon atoms
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2003· 2 entries
Her group beat the world record for the shortest laser pulse, lasting 170 attoseconds
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And her group beat the world record for the shortest laser pulse, of 170 attoseconds
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded Göran Gustafsson Prize for physics (1998).
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1994· 2 entries
Maciej Lewenstein, L’Huiller and Paul Corkum presented a full quantum theory of high harmonic generation
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Moved to Sweden, where she was appointed at Lund University as a lecturer in 1995 and a professor in 1997
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1992· 1 entry
Took part in an experiment in Lund, where one of the first titanium-sapphire solid-state laser systems for femtosecond pulses in Europe had been installed
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1991· 1 entry
L'Huillier in collaboration with Kenneth Schafer and Kenneth Kulander presented numerical simulations of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation in order to understand the generation of high-order harmonics
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1987· 1 entry
L’Huillier first observed that gases like argon would react to a laser by becoming excited and emitting additional radiation or overtones, at various multiples of the frequency of laser
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1986· 2 entries
L'Huillier obtained a permanent position as a researcher at the CEA, at the Saclay site
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Studied at Pierre and Marie Curie University, doctorate in France (1986).
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1958· 1 entry
Born 1958-08-16.
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