Anne Lhullier, a professor of atomic physics at Lund University in Sweden who jointly won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics, said she was in the middle of a lecture when she heard the news of the award and did not answer the phone.
According to AP and AFP on the 3rd (local time), Professor Lhullier said at a press conference that day, “I was teaching students when I received a call saying I had received the award.”
It is said that Professor Lhullier was teaching a basic engineering physics class to about 100 undergraduate students at the time. He couldn’t answer the call because he had his cell phone on silent, and it wasn’t until break time that he checked. He called the Nobel Committee again to confirm the news of his award.
In an interview with the media, Professor Lhullier joked that it was difficult to resume classes after hearing the news of the award and recalled, “I forgot about the Nobel Prize and tried to finish the lecture safely.”
Anne Lhullier, professor of atomic physics at Lund University in Sweden, receives a phone call about receiving the Nobel Prize during a lecture break. Capture from Nobel Committee X (Twitter)The Nobel Committee also released a photo of Lhullier holding a cell phone to his ear on social media X. The committee ‘informs dedicated teachers. Even the Nobel Prize in Physics could not separate Lhullier from his students.’
Professor Lhullier said at the press conference announcing the award, “This is the most prestigious award, and I am very happy to have won it. “It’s really amazing,” he said. “As you know, not many women have received this award, so it feels even more special.”
Professor Lhullier is the fifth female recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, and the first in three years since 2020. Female winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics so far include Marie Curie in 1903, Maria Mayer in 1963, Donna Strickland in 2018, and Andrea Ghez in 2020.
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics will be awarded to Pierre Agostani, a scientist who developed an ‘ultra-fast flash’ that can see the movement of electrons in an instant of 1 quintillionth of a second, Professor Pierre Agostani of Ohio State University, USA, and Ferenz Kraus of Quantum Optics at the Max Planck Institute in Germany. It went to the director of the research institute, Anne Lhullier, a professor at Lund University in Sweden.
The Nobel Committee said, “The experiments of these three people gave humanity new tools to explore the world of electrons within atoms and molecules.” He also said, “We have shown a way to create extremely short light waves that can be used to measure fast processes that move electrons or change energy.”
Choi Jae-ho,
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