Nobel Prize winner: Call from Stockholm in class
The call from Stockholm surprised nuclear physicist Anne L’Huillier in class. photo
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Nobel Prize winner in physics Anne L’Huillier suddenly received the famous call from Stockholm during a lecture. “I taught,” said the French nuclear physicist when asked where she had been reached to tell her about the award shortly before it was announced. She was only able to answer the call on the third or fourth attempt during a break.
Nobel Prize winner in physics Anne L’Huillier suddenly made the famous phone call during a lecture Get Stockholm. “I taught,” said the French nuclear physicist when asked where she had been reached to tell her about the award shortly before it was announced. She was only able to answer the call on the third or fourth attempt during a break.
The last half hour of her lecture was “a little difficult,” she said when she was connected by telephone to the award announcement in Stockholm. She was now at a loss for words because she was very touched. “It’s just fantastic.”
The Nobel Prize means a lot to her, said L’Huillier. “This is the most prestigious award and I’m so happy about it. It’s incredible. Not that many women receive this award. It’s very, very special.”
The Frenchwoman is a professor of atomic physics at the university in Lund, southern Sweden. She will receive this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics together with Pierre Agostini and Ferenc Krausz, who researches in Germany. They receive the prestigious award for experiments that gave humanity new tools to explore the world of electrons in atoms and molecules.