BREAKING: Hungarian researcher wins this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics

Ferenc Krausz. Source: Wikimedia Commons/ C.laschinger

Ferenc Krausz, Pierre Agostini and Anne L’Huillier shared the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter”.

Ferenc Krausz was also the winner of the 2022 Physical Wolf Prize, which he shared with Anne L’Huillier. He is an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Director of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Germany, Telex reports. He has previously been awarded the Gábor Dénes Prize.

BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 #NobelPrize in Physics to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.” pic.twitter.com/6sPjl1FFzv

— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 3, 2023

Ferenc Krausz, a Hungarian physicist born in Mór, obtained a degree in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Hungary in 1985 and a degree in physics from ELTE TTK in parallel, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences writes. He received his doctorate from the Technical University of Vienna in 1991, where he later worked as an associate professor and then professor.

In 2003, he was appointed Director of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, and since 2004, he has been Head of the Department of Experimental Physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich.

Ferenc Krausz has also acquired Austrian citizenship, and has been a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 2003, and an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) since 2007.

As a result of their research, the world’s first attosecond light pulses were produced and measured by Ferenc Krausz’s group in the early 2000s.

The three winning researchers will share a total of SEK 11 million (HUF 368 million, EUR 946,630). The prize will be awarded on 10 December, the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, the founder of the prize.

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