Biography:Janos Kirz
Janos Kirz | |
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 Janos Kirz in 2025 | |
| Born | 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.[1][2]
Biography
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]
Research
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.
Awards
- 1970 - Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship[2]
- 1985 - Guggenheim Fellowship[6]
- 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.[7]
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.
References
- ↑ "Janos Kirz". Stony Brook University Department of Physics and Astronomy. https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/physics/people/_profiles/kirzj. Retrieved October 18, 2025.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Sloan Research Fellows". Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. https://sloan.org/fellows-database.
- ↑ "Janos Kirz". Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. http://www-als.lbl.gov/index.php/ring-leaders/665-janos-kirz.html.
- ↑ "Symposium reviews Edward Teller's varied contributions to science". https://www.llnl.gov/news/symposium-reviews-edward-teller%E2%80%99s-varied-contributions-science.
- ↑ Hargittai, István (2006). Martians of Science: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. p. 10. ISBN 9780199884414. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/martians-of-science-9780195365566.
- ↑ "Janos Kirz". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/janos-kirz/.
- ↑ "APSUO Arthur H. Compton Award - Past Winners". APS, Argonne National Laboratory. https://www.aps.anl.gov/About/Committees/APS-Users-Organization/Compton-Award/Past-Winners.
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