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Ferenc Krausz
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Ferenc Krausz

Scientist · born May 17, 1962

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Ferenc Krausz is a Hungarian physicist working in attosecond science. He was a director at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and a professor of experimental physics at LMU Munich in Germany.

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Milestones, by age

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  1. ~60Received the Wolf Prize in Physics2022
  2. ~61Received the Nobel Prize in Physics2023

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