Janos Kirz

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]

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

• 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]

• 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.