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Ferenc Krausz is a Hungarian physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his work on attosecond science. He is a director at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and a professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany.
Ferenc Krausz is a Hungarian-born Austrian physicist who won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for his experiments with attosecond pulses of light. Learn about his life, education, achievements, and awards from Britannica.
Ferenc Krausz is a Hungarian-born physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 for his contributions to laser physics. He is also a Director at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and a Professor at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
Prof. Dr. Ferenc Krausz ist ein renommierter Physiker, der die Grundlagen der Natur erforscht. Er leitet die Abteilung Attosekundenphysik am Max Planck Institut für Quantenoptik und entwickelt neue Technologien für die Zukunft.
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This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three physicists — Pierre Agostini at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ferenc Krausz at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, and Anne L’Huillier at Lund University, Sweden — for their research into attosecond pulses of light.
Attosecond physics allows scientists to look at the very smallest particles at the very shortest timescales (an attosecond is one-quintillionth of a second, or one-billionth of a nanosecond). The winners developed methods that produce these ultrafast laser pulses, which can be used to study our world at the smallest scales and have applications in chemistry, biology and physics.
The prize was announced this morning by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. The winners share a prize of 11 million Swedish kroner (US$1 million).
The laureates include the fifth woman ever to have been awarded the physics prize (see ‘Nobel imbalance’). Of 221 previous winners, just four have been women: Marie Curie in 1903 for her work on radiation phenomena, Maria Goeppert-Mayer in 1963 for unpicking some of the details of atomic structure, Donna Strickland in 2018 for work in laser physics and Andrea Ghez in 2020 for research into supermassive black holes.
L’Huillier was teaching when she received the call telling her that she had won. “The last half hour of my lecture was very difficult to do,” she said at a press conference after the prize announcement. “As you know, there are not many women that get this prize, so it’s very, very special.”
An object that moves too fast to be photographed produces the image of a band of light when its picture is taken. But using an extremely fast strobe light to illuminate the object can make it look like it has been frozen in time. Attosecond light pulses work by the same principle, opening up a world of phenomena once thought to be impossible to see.
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Ferenc Krausz, along with Pierre Agostini and Anne L’Huillier, received the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on ultrafast pulses of light. They developed methods to generate and measure attosecond-scale pulses, which can reveal the dynamics of electrons and other tiny particles.
Ferenc Krausz is the co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 for his work on attosecond science. Read his interview on his passion, collaboration, advice and first reactions to the prize.
Oct 3, 2023 · The 2023 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to a team of scientists who created a ground-breaking technique using lasers to understand the extremely rapid movements of electrons, which were...
