Nobel Prize in Physics 2023: Ferenc Krausz - From Vienna to Global Fame

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The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Hungarian-Austrian physicist Ferenc Krausz, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to particle research and attosecond physics. The Nobel Committee made the announcement recently in Stockholm. Krausz shares the prestigious prize with his colleague Anne L'Huillier and his colleague Pierre Agostini.

Ferenc Krausz has been awarded the Nobel Prize for his research in physics, which he conducted at the Vienna University of Technology. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons / C.laschinger / CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en)

The trio's research revolutionized our understanding of electron motion in atoms and molecules. The Nobel Committee emphasized that their groundbreaking experiments made it possible to generate extremely short pulses of light that could be used to observe the rapid processes of electron motion and energy change.

Ferenc Krausz spent much of his impressive scientific career in…