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Ferenc Krausz

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Ferenc Krausz (born 17 May 1962) is a Hungaro-Austrian physicist working in attosecond science. He is a director at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and a professor of experimental physics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany. His research team has generated and measured the first attosecond light pulse and used it for capturing electrons' motion inside atoms, marking the birth of attophysics. In 2023, jointly with Pierre Agostini and Anne L'Huillier, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ferenc Krausz is the 449th most popular physicist (down from 337th in 2019), the 284th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 164th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Hungarian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ferenc Krausz ranks 449 out of 851. Before him are Howard P. Robertson, Yuval Ne'eman, John Dollond, Douglas Hofstadter, Frank Oppenheimer, and Katharine Burr Blodgett. After him are Richard C. Tolman, Albert W. Hull, Chester Carlson, Henri Tresca, Leonard Susskind, and Anatole Abragam.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Ferenc Krausz ranks 107. Before him are Black, Michel Petrucciani, Tommy Lee, Maia Morgenstern, Danny Huston, and Víctor Manuel Fernández. After him are Alain Robert, Julio Salinas, Gina Gershon, Alan Smith, Sheryl Crow, and Peter Steele.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Ferenc Krausz ranks 284 out of 1,077. Before him are Ferenc Münnich (1886), Ferenc Mohácsi (1929), Ladislao Vajda (1906), Sándor Garbai (1879), Béla Imrédy (1891), and Carl Flesch (1873). After him are Andre DeToth (1913), Miloš Crnjanski (1893), Antal Doráti (1906), Maximilian de Angelis (1889), Gyula Benczúr (1844), and Philip de László (1869).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Hungary

Among physicists born in Hungary, Ferenc Krausz ranks 7. Before him are Leo Szilard (1898), Edward Teller (1908), Eugene Wigner (1902), Dennis Gabor (1900), Georg von Békésy (1899), and Arpad Elo (1903). After him are Nicholas Kurti (1908), Zoltán Lajos Bay (1900), Valentine Telegdi (1922), and Egon Orowan (1902).

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