These are the previous Austrian physics prize winners

Ferenc Krausz joins a number of well-known names: Erwin Schrödinger received the coveted award in 1933, Victor Franz Hess in 1936, Wolfgang Pauli in 1945 and, just last year, the Viennese quantum physicist Anton Zeilinger.

Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961) is considered one of the fathers of quantum physics; in 1926 he provided one of the two theoretical formulations of quantum theory with the so-called wave mechanics (“Schrödinger equation”). In 1933 he was the first Austrian to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, together with the British physicist Paul Dirac “for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory.”

Victor Franz Hess (1883-1964) demonstrated an increase in ionizing radiation from a captive balloon in 1912. He received the Nobel Prize in 1936 for the discovery of cosmic rays. He shared the award with US physicist Carl David Anderson, who was honored for the discovery of the “positron”.

Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958) formulated a physical law in 1925 that provided a quantum mechanical explanation of the structure of an atom. To put it simply, two electrons in an atom cannot agree in all quantum numbers. He received the Nobel Prize in 1945 for the “discovery of the exclusion principle, also known as the Pauli principle.”

Anton Zeilinger (born 1945) shared the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics with his French colleague Alain Aspect and the US physicist John Clauser. The three physicists were recognized “for experiments with entangled photons, demonstration of the violation of Bell’s inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.”

Ferenc Krausz (born 1962 in Hungary) shares the Nobel Prize in Physics with the physicist Pierre Agostini, who works in the USA, and the physicist Anne L’Huillier, who works in Sweden. The Austro-Hungarian physicist Krausz, who works at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Munich, receives the Nobel Prize for “experimental methods that generate attosecond light pulses to study electron dynamics in matter.” He and his team at the Vienna University of Technology (TU) succeeded in achieving such short flashes of light for the first time in 2001. Since then, Krausz has been able to record numerous real-time films of the movement of electrons in molecules and atoms.

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