Janos Kirz

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Janos Kirz
Born	1937 (1937) Budapest, Hungary
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley
Known for	X-ray microscopy Zone plates
Awards	Arthur H. Compton Award (2005)
Scientific career
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.

Biography

Kirz was born in Budapest, Hungary and emigrated to the United States following the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He studied physics at the University of California, Berkeley and after getting his PhD in 1963, he spent a year as a postdoc at CEA in Saclay. In 1968 Kirz took a position at Stony Brook University where he was appointed professor in 1973. ^[1] Kirz is the nephew of physicist Edward Teller. ^{[2] [3]}

Research

Kirz's work has focused on Soft X-ray microscopy and the development and use of zone plates.

Awards

• 1970 - Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship ^[4]
• 1985 - Guggenheim Fellowship ^[5]
• 2005 - Arthur H. Compton Award from the Advanced Photon Source for "Pioneering and developing the field of x-ray microscopy using Fresnel zone plates". Shared with Günter Schmahl. ^[6]

Publications

• Kirz, Janos (1974). "Phase zone plates for x rays and the extreme uv". Journal of the Optical Society of America . 65 (3): 301–309. doi:10.1364/JOSA.64.000301.
• Kirz, Janos; Jacobsen, Chris; Howells, Malcolm (1995). "Soft X-ray microscopes and their biological applications". Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics. 28 (1): 33–130. doi:10.1017/S0033583500003139. PMID   7676009. S2CID   37999221.

References

1. "Janos Kirz". Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
2. "Symposium reviews Edward Teller's varied contributions to science".
3. Hargittai, István (2006). Martians of Science: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. p. 10. ISBN   9780199884414.
4. "Sloan Research Fellows". Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
5. "Janos Kirz". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
6. "APSUO Arthur H. Compton Award - Past Winners". APS, Argonne National Laboratory. Retrieved 22 June 2022.