The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 to L'Huillier, Lund University, Sweden, Pierre Agostini, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA, and Ferenc Krausz, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.
From the press release:
“For experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter”
The three Nobel Laureates in Physics 2023 are being recognised for their experiments, which have given humanity new tools for exploring the world of electrons inside atoms and molecules. Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier have demonstrated a way to create extremely short pulses of light that can be used to measure the rapid processes in which electrons move or change energy.
- Full article on lunduniversity.lu.se: Anne L'Huillier awarded Nobel Prize in Physics
- Article in the Conversation: How we hired 2023 Nobel laureate Anne L'Huillier – and why we knew she was destined for greatness (theconversation.com)
- Press release: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 - NobelPrize.org
- See the presentation of Anne L'Huillier in the Research portal: Anne L'Huillier — Lund University
How the news of Anne L'Huillier's Nobel Prize has spread
The news that Lund University has been awarded a Nobel Prize has spread all over the world and many newspapers, TV and radio channels have written about it. You can see some of it under Lunds universitet i media. Most articles describe her first reactions and that she continued her lecture for the students. The searches on our international website lunduniversity.lu.se had 11,500 hits in the first week and the article How we hired 2023 Nobel laureate Anne L'Huillier – and why we knew she was destined for greatness in The Conversation has over 9000 views.
Dissemination in our own channels
The video above about Anne L'Huillier receiving the award has been viewed more than 150,000 times on YouTube, it was spread in several of the university's social media channels and broke all records on LinkedIn with over 40,000 interactions at the time of writing and a reach of over 1.6 million. The university's new Instagram account for research also reached far beyond the number of followers, as the film reached around 15,000 accounts. On Facebook, the video was received with over 3000 interactions and a reach of over 100,000.
The news that Lund University has been awarded a Nobel Prize has clearly increased traffic to the university's websites in the past week, especially on the first day. Statistics from our university-wide websites lu.se and lunduniversity.lu.se, from Tuesday 3 October, the day of the announcement, to Sunday 8 October, show increased traffic. Please note that the data used only comes from users who have accepted cookies, so the actual numbers are higher.
For lu.se, the percentage change ranged from +44% on Tuesday, the day of the announcement of the Nobel Prize, to +2% on Sunday. For lunduniversity.lu.se, the percentage change ranged from +54% to +14% on the same days.
The university-wide websites on research also received much more traffic than on the same days a week earlier. Otherwise, many clicked through to the Research Portal and the official press release on Nobelprize.org.
Many were those who searched for our Nobel Laureate's name and many of them had difficulty with the spelling, but hopefully found the right one in the end, Anne L'Huillier it should be, congratulations!
See the different posts in our university-wide social media: