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Pierre Agostini of Ohio State University, Ferenc Krausz of Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, and Anne L’Huillier of Lund University will each receive equal shares of the 11m Swedish kronor (£823,000) prize. In particular, L’Huillier is only the fifth woman to receive the prize. Speaking at the press conference, L’Huillier, who herself sat on the Nobel committee for physics between 2007 and 2015, said she was teaching when she received the call to tell her she had won. Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier of Lund University receive equal shares of the 11m Swedish kronor (£823,000) prize. (Photo: REUTERS) “The last half-hour of my lecture was difficult to do. As you know there are not so many women that get this prize, so it is very, very special,” shared L’Huillier. According to the Nobel Committee, Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier demonstrated a way to create extremely short pulses of light that can be used to measure the rapid pr...