Meet the Winners of Nobel Prize for Physics 2018

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm today announced the winners of Nobel Prize in Physics for the year 2018. 3 scientists Arthur Ashkin (US), Gérard Morou (France), and Donna Strickland ( Canada) won this year's award for their "inventions in laser physics".

Ashkin wins half of the prize for his development of “optical tweezers” which have allowed tiny organisms to be handled with light beams. Mourou and Strickland share a quarter of the prize each “for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses,” the Nobel committee said.

Important Points to Note :

• With this award Donna Strickland becomes the 1st woman to win the physics Nobel since Maria Goeppert Mayer (honoured in 1963) for her work on the nuclear shell structure. Strickland is only the third woman in history to win the physics prize.

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