CURRENT UPDATE : THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS 2018

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 “for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics” with one half to Arthur Ashkin “for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems” and the other half jointly to Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland “for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses”

Arthur Ashkin Born: 2 September 1922, New York, NY, USA Affiliation at the time of the award: Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ, USA Prize motivation: "for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems." Prize share: 1/2	Gérard Mourou Born: 1944 in Albertville, France. Affiliation at the time of the award: École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France , University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA Prize motivation: "for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses." Prize share: 1/4	Donna Strickland Born: 1959 in Guelph, Canada. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada Prize motivation: "for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses." Prize share: ¼
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