The light touch of illumination
One half of last year’s Nobel Prize in physics has celebrated optical tweezers which enables detailed study of biological specimens in a way that was not possible using conventional methods.
Nobel Physics Prize 2018: Arthur Ashkin, Gerard Mourou and Donna Strickland have been awarded the Nobel Physics Prize 2018 for “groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics”.
The three will share the 9 million kronor prize.
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One half of the prize will be given to Arthur Ashkin from the United States, “for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems” while the other half is shared equally among Gerard Mourou of France and Donna Strickland from Canada “for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses”, according to the official website of the award giving body.
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