3 scientists share 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics

In a telephone interview on site, L'Huillier said that receiving the prize "means really a lot" to her.

"It's incredible," she said, adding that she was so happy to get the prize "as not so many women (scientists) get it."

In 1987, L'Huillier discovered that many different overtones of light arose when she transmitted infrared laser light through a noble gas. She has since continued to explore this phenomenon, laying the ground for subsequent breakthroughs.

In 2001, Agostini succeeded in producing and investigating a series of consecutive light pulses, in which each pulse lasted just 250 attoseconds.

Simultaneously, Krausz was working on another type of experiment, one that made it possible to isolate a single light pulse that lasted 650 attoseconds.