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2018 Nobel Physics Prize
October 6 , 2018
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- The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has selected three scientists
- Arthur Ashkin (USA),
- Gerard Mourou (France) and
- Donna Strickland (Canada)
for the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics.
- They were selected for ground breaking inventions in the field of laser physics.
- Arthur Ashkin is 96 years old which makes him oldest scientist ever to be awarded a Nobel Prize.
- He received prize for optical tweezers and their application to biological systems.
- Gerard Mourou and Donna Strickland were jointly awarded for their innovative technique is known as ‘chirped pulse amplification’ (CPA).
- Strickland became 3rd woman to have received Nobel Prize in Physics, after Marie Curie in 1903 and Maria Goeppert Mayer in 1963.
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