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Pierre Agostini

1941 - Today

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Pierre Agostini (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ aɡɔstini]; born 23 July 1941) is a French experimental physicist and Emeritus professor at the Ohio State University in the United States, known for his pioneering work in strong-field laser physics and attosecond science. He is especially known for the observation of above-threshold ionization and the invention of the reconstruction of attosecond beating by interference of two-photon transitions (RABBITT) technique for characterization of attosecond light pulses. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Agostini has received more than 209,483 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Agostini is the 218th most popular physicist, the 20th most popular biography from Tunisia and the most popular Tunisian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Pierre Agostini ranks 218 out of 851. Before him are Arthur Ashkin, Yoichiro Nambu, Abdus Salam, Jerome Isaac Friedman, Leon Cooper, and Clifford Shull. After him are Chien-Shiung Wu, Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., Vitaly Ginzburg, John L. Hall, John Clauser, and Murray Gell-Mann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Pierre Agostini ranks 61. Before him are Jordi Savall, Dan Shechtman, Mircea Snegur, Gérson, Viktor Zubkov, and Claudine Auger. After him are Jacques Perrin, Ray Tomlinson, Ivica Osim, Theodor W. Hänsch, Roberto Carlos, and Jürgen Prochnow.

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In Tunisia

Among people born in Tunisia, Pierre Agostini ranks 20 out of 210. Before him are Beji Caid Essebsi (1926), Hanno the Navigator (-633), Aemilianus (207), Hasdrubal Barca (-300), Julia of Corsica (420), and Fatima al-Fihri (800). After him are Macrobius (370), Sophonisba (-300), Gunthamund (450), Al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah (931), Moncef Marzouki (1945), and Mohamed Ghannouchi (1941).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Tunisia

Among physicists born in Tunisia, Pierre Agostini ranks 1. 

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