Bor, Zsolt

Physicist

Zsolt Bor, physicist, academic, completed his studies in 1973 at the Kiev Technical University as an electrical engineer. In 1975 he became a Doctor, in 1982 he was awarded a post-doctorate degree and in 1984 he became a Doctor of Sciences. In 1990 he became a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA), in 1993 of the Academia Europea with headquarters in London. He has led the Laser Physics research Group of MTA since 1998. In 1989 he founded the Optical and Quantum Electronics Department of the University of Szeged. From 1999 to 2002 he was president of the Physics Department of MTA. Between 1977 and 1989 he intermittently spent 6 years at the laser physics department of the Max-Planck-Institut für Biophysikalische Chemie in Göttingen, where he laid the foundations for various new research directions (the generation of picosecond laser impulses, femtosecond optics) chiefly with the assistance of physicists from Szeged. From 1995 he was a visiting professor at Rice University, Houston, where he studied the optical problems of photolithography. From 1999 he spent eighteen months in San Diego where he dealt with the development of photolithographic lasers. He received the Széchenyi award in 1994, in 1998 the Pázmány Péter award and the Pro Urbe, Szeged award. Currently, he is working on the development of lasers serving the purposes of refractive eye surgery and super vision.

The Omniscient Beam of Light: Laser