Ferenc Krausz,
1962– , b. Mór, Hungary, Hungarian physicist, studied at Eötvös Loránd
University and Technical University of Budapest in Hungary and the Technical
University of Vienna (Ph.D., 1993) He is a director at Max Planck Institute
of Quantum Optics and a professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of
Munich. His work focuses on attosecond physics. Krausz, along with Pierre
Agonstini and
AnneL'Huillier, was
awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for investigative methods for the
study of electron dynamics in matter by generating attosecond pulses of
light.
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