Ferenc Krausz

Ferenc Krausz (born May 17, 1962, Mór, Hungary) is a Hungarian-born Austrian physicist who was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for his experiments with attosecond pulses of light. He shared the prize with French physicists Pierre Agostini and Anne L’Huillier. An attosecond is 10⁻¹⁸ second, or one billionth of a billionth of a second. When electrons move in atoms and molecules, they move on attosecond timescales. By generating pulses of light that last...