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Ferenc Krausz

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Ferenc Krausz (born 17 May 1962) is a Hungarian 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ferenc Krausz has received more than 246,802 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia. Ferenc Krausz is the 337th most popular physicist, the 164th most popular biography from Hungary and the 6th most popular Hungarian Physicist.

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  • 1.74

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ferenc Krausz ranks 337 out of 851. Before him are Joseph Swan, Pierre Louis Dulong, Ami Argand, Donna Strickland, Otto Schmidt, and Frank Wilczek. After him are Frank Oppenheimer, Philip Abelson, John Stewart Bell, John Theophilus Desaguliers, Shuji Nakamura, and Hans Kramers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Ferenc Krausz ranks 50. Before him are Gerardo Martino, Kirk Hammett, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Dave Gahan, Emilio Estevez, and Tony Leung Chiu-wai. After him are Axl Rose, Marcia Cross, Andreas Köpke, Imad Mughniyah, Ally McCoist, and Black.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Ferenc Krausz ranks 164 out of 1,077. Before him are Lajos Tichy (1935), Miklós Zrínyi (1620), Árpád Göncz (1922), Coloman of Galicia (1208), Yolanda of Poland (1235), and Hans Richter (1843). After him are John Harsanyi (1920), Aladár Gerevich (1910), Gyula Zsengellér (1915), Béla Miklós (1890), Ferenc Erkel (1810), and Michael Balint (1896).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Hungary

Among physicists born in Hungary, Ferenc Krausz ranks 6. Before him are Edward Teller (1908), Eugene Wigner (1902), Leo Szilard (1898), Dennis Gabor (1900), and Georg von Békésy (1899). After him are Arpad Elo (1903), Nicholas Kurti (1908), Zoltán Lajos Bay (1900), Valentine Telegdi (1922), and Egon Orowan (1902).

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