In 2017, Ferenc Krausz gave a lecture in his hometown, which was attended by many people. Our newspaper reported on the event as follows: “In the packed rows of chairs in the large hall sat many of the professor’s old friends, acquaintances and schoolmates. Those who knew Móron from the elementary school in Úttorő utca, then from Radnót primary school, and from the local Táncsics high school, where he completed his primary and secondary studies. The scientist who he also proved to be an excellent speaker in front of lay audiences, between 1981 and 1985 he was a student at two universities at the same time: he obtained a degree in electrical engineering from the Budapest University of Technology and a degree in theoretical physics from ELTE – it is clear from his words. Ferenc Krausz remembers his teachers with gratitude, among whom at the same time he also mentioned by name Károly Simonyi and György Marx, whom he had met during his university years. The former, he said, had fantastic lectures and was almost able to see electromagnetic waves, which are of course invisible. He described the latter as having missed the Nobel by a hair’s breadth – award.”
Ferenc Krausz moved to Vienna in 1987, my technical university there turned his attention to laser physics. Here he formed his first small research group, and in 1995 they also built their laboratory.
During his 2017 presentation, Mór also revealed that Ferenc Krausz was invited to Munich in 2002, where he moved with several members of his research group. Here, he was appointed head of the laser physics department at Ludvig Maximilian University and head of the research institute named after Max Planck. In the meantime, fifty other labs have been built around the world that carry out research similar to his and promise that cancer can be recognized in its early stages, or – this is another direction of research – we can build supercomputers with much higher performance and with their help they can we will predict earthquakes and tsunamis.
