Ferenc Krausz
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Ferenc Krausz
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023
Born: 17 May 1962, Mór, Hungary
Affiliation at the time of the award: Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany
Prize motivation: “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter”
Prize share: 1/3
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