Krausz, Ferenc

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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