Janos Kirz
Janos Kirz is a Hungarian-American physicist, professor emeritus at Stony Brook University, and pioneer of X-ray microscopy.
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 in Saclay. In 1968 Kirz took a position at Stony Brook University where he was appointed professor in 1973.Kirz is the nephew of physicist Edward Teller.
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
- 1985 - Guggenheim Fellowship
- 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.