2019 Vladilen Letokhov Medal

The 2019 Vladilen Letokhov Medal is awarded to Prof. Dr. Ferenc Krausz, Director of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) and Chair for Experimental Physics & Laser Physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich. The prize is awarded to Prof. Krausz “for his contribution to the development of high-field laser physics, in particular for pioneering attosecond physics, through which real-time views of electron motion in atoms, molecules, and solids have become possible”.

Russian Academy elects Ducloy Foreign Member

Martial Ducloy has been elected Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in recognition of both his contributions to the field of coherent optics, laser physics and laser spectroscopy, and his long-lasting scientific collaboration with Russian institutes in the fields of Laser Metrology, and Nonlinear and Quantum Optics.

Ducloy – the current chair of the European Physical Society [EPS] Forum Physics and Society – will join such prestigious company as Claude Cohen-Tannoudji; Murray Gell-Mann; Jules Hoffman, the recent recipient of a Nobel Prize…