Janos Kirz | |
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| Born | 1937 |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Known for | X-ray microscopy Zone plates |
| Awards | Arthur H. Compton Award (2005) |
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| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Stony Brook University Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Doctoral advisor | Luis Walter Alvarez Robert D. Tripp |
Janos Kirz (born 1937) is a Hungarian-American physicist, professor emeritus at Stony Brook University, and pioneer of X-ray microscopy. [1] [2]
Born in Budapest, Hungary, Kirz emigrated to the United States in late 1956 after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Kirz earned a Bachelor of Arts in physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1959 and received his PhD in physics from the same institution in 1963. He then spent 1963–1964 as a postdoctoral fellow at the French Atomic Energy Commission (Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives) in Saclay. In 1968 Kirz took a position at Stony Brook University where he was appointed professor in 1973. [3] Kirz is the nephew of physicist Edward Teller. [4] [5]
Kirz’s research centers on the development of soft X-ray microscopy techniques using Fresnel zone plates and the application of these methods to biological and materials science investigations.
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