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”
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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
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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
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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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