Ferenc Krausz facts for kids
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Ferenc Krausz
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Krausz in 2007
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| Born | 17 May 1962 Mór, Hungarian People's Republic
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| Known for | First attosecond light source |
| Awards | Wolf Prize in Physics (2022) BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2022) Nobel Prize in Physics (2023) |
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| Fields | Attosecond physics |
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| Thesis | Erzeugung ultrakurzer Lichtimpulse in Neodymium-Glaslasern (1991) |
| Doctoral advisor | Arnold Schmidt |
Ferenc Krausz (born 17 May 1962) is a Hungarian physicist. He is famous for his work in attosecond science. This field studies events that happen in incredibly short amounts of time.
He is a director at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics. He is also a professor of experimental physics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany. His team was the first to create and measure an attosecond light pulse. An attosecond is a billionth of a billionth of a second! They used these super-fast pulses to watch how electrons move inside atoms. This led to the start of a new science called attophysics. In 2023, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics. He shared it with Pierre Agostini and Anne L'Huillier.
His Journey in Science
Ferenc Krausz began his studies in Hungary. From 1981 to 1985, he studied theoretical physics at Eötvös Loránd University. He also studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Budapest.
Later, he moved to Austria. From 1987 to 1991, he earned his PhD at the Technical University of Vienna. He continued his research there. From 1996 to 2004, he became a professor of electrical engineering at the same university.
In 2003, he became a director at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics. This institute is in Garching, Germany. The next year, in 2004, he also became a professor. He teaches experimental physics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
Awards and Recognitions
Ferenc Krausz has received many important awards for his scientific work.
- 2006 – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
- 2006 – Royal Photographic Society Progress medal
- 2009 – Elected a Fellow of Optica
- 2013 – Otto Hahn Prize
- 2015 – Recognized as a Clarivate Citation laureate in Physics. This was for his work in attosecond physics.
- 2016 – Became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
- 2019 – Received the Vladilen Letokhov Medal.
- 2022 – Won the Wolf Prize in Physics. He shared it with Anne L'Huillier and Paul Corkum. This was for their work in ultrafast laser science.
- 2022 – Received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award. He shared this with L'Huillier and Corkum.
- 2023 – Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. He shared it with L'Huillier and Pierre Agostini. They won for creating special light pulses. These pulses help scientists study how electrons move in matter.
