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allthecanadianpolitics:roboticsappreciationsociety:emily84:mindblowingscience:Breaking News:The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2018 has been awarded to Arthur Ashkin, Gerard Mourou and Donna Strickland “for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics”.Donna Strickland is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 55 years.Nobel Laureate Arthur Ashkin has been awarded the #NobelPrize in Physics “for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems.”Nobel Laureates Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland have been awarded the #NobelPrize in Physics “for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses.”Article here with more information about their work:Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland win Nobel physics prizeDonna Strickland is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 55 yearsand the 3rd woman in history.Ashkin, an affiliate of Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, wins half of the prize for his development of “optical tweezers”, a tractor beam-like technology that allows scientists to grab atoms, viruses and bacteria in finger-like laser-beams. The effect was demonstrated by the award committee by levitating a ping pong ball with a hairdryer.Mourou at the École Polytechnique near Paris, and Strickland at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, each receive a quarter of the prize for work that paved the way for the shortest, most intense laser beams ever created. Their technique, named chirped pulse amplification, is now used in laser machining and enables doctors to perform millions of corrective laser eye surgeries every year.Here’s some good news for today.Canadian Scientist, Donna Strickland (who is at the University of Waterloo) has become the 3rd woman in history to win the Nobel Prize in Physics. -- source link