Anne L'Huillier, 1958–, b. Paris, France, French-Swedish physicist, studied at Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, and Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (Ph.D., 1986). She is a professor of atomic physics at Lund University, Sweden. L'Huillier, along with Pierre Agonstini and Ferenc Krausz, was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for investigative methods for the study of electron dynamics in matter by generating attosecond pulses of light.
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