On Tuesday at 11 a.m. the call came from Sweden, on Friday at 11 a.m. Prof. Ferenc Krausz, the 24th Austro-Hungarian Nobel Laureate and head of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Physics in Germany, gave this interview to the “Krone” – in Vienna, where everything started.
Our train tickets to Munich were almost booked when Prof. Ferenc Krausz quickly rescheduled. He comes to Vienna and takes the opportunity to visit the TU, where he once performed the experiments for which the physicist now receives the Nobel Prize. Since then, three countries have been fighting over him: Krausz was born in Hungary, did research in Vienna for sixteen years and has since had an Austrian passport, and he heads the renowned Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Germany.
Exactly three days after the phone call from Sweden, the 24th Austrian Nobel Prize winner sits opposite me in the Institute for Photonics. Krausz is wearing the blue linen jacket that he also wore during his first statements on Tuesday. “I only slept two hours,” he smiles, tired but happy. He always talks to my colleague Reinhard Holl about exposure times and special properties of cameras.
Behind him on the wall are photos of the pioneers in laser physics who he brought to TU Vienna to exchange ideas and who have made a major contribution to the breathtaking development of the science of light and lasers over the past twenty years.
“Kron”:‘Paparazzo of electrons’, ‘fastest photographer in the world’: what does the new Nobel Prize winner think of these names?
Ferenc Krausz: They are funny! (Laughs)
Source: Krone
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