Anne L'Huillier was co-awarded the 2022 Wolf Prize in Physics for pioneering contributions to attosecond science and strong-field laser physics.
On March 3, 2022, Anne L'Huillier was announced as a co-recipient of the Wolf Prize in Physics, one of the most prestigious international science awards, often regarded as a strong precursor to the Nobel Prize. The Wolf Foundation, based in Israel, has awarded this prize annually since 1978 to scientists and artists for achievements in the interest of mankind.
L'Huillier was recognized alongside collaborators for her foundational and pioneering contributions to attosecond science and strong-field laser physics, fields she had helped establish through decades of experimental and theoretical work dating back to her discoveries of high-order harmonic generation in the late 1980s.
The prize acknowledged not only her original scientific discoveries but also her sustained leadership in building an internationally renowned attosecond physics research group at Lund University, which trained generations of scientists now working across the field of ultrafast physics worldwide.
Winning the Wolf Prize placed L'Huillier in the company of an elite group of physicists, many of whom went on to receive the Nobel Prize, and indeed just over a year and a half later, in October 2023, L'Huillier herself would be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, cementing the Wolf Prize's reputation as an accurate predictor of future Nobel laureates.