Arthur Ashkin has been awarded half of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of optical tweezers. On 2 October it was announced that the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics was being awarded “for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics”. One half of the award went 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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