Anne L'Huillier, Nobel Prize in Physics 2023: "We have problems, like climate change, more important than reaching the Moon"

Anne L'Huillier (Paris, 1958) opted for science for two reasons: the work of her grandfather, a researcher who participated on the Allied side in World War II intercepting Nazi radio communications; and the arrival of man on the Moon. But she was not interested in Neil Armstrong; What fascinated L'Huillier was the technology that led her to set foot on our satellite and that made it possible to broadcast live that historic moment that she saw as a child on television while on vacation in the Basque Country. Years later, together with Pierre Agostini and Ferenc Krausz, he developed a photographic camera capable of recording the movements of electrons in an attosecond, a measure of… See more