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Nobel Prize in Physics celebrates 'groundbreaking' laser breakthroughs

JONATHAN NACKSTRAND

<p>A portrait of Swedish inventor and scholar Alfred Nobel can be seen on a banner on display at the Nobel Forum in Stockholm, Sweden, prior to a press conference to announce the winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 1, 2018. (Photo by Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP) (Photo credit should read JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP/Getty Images)</p>

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The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Arthur Ashkin, and the other half jointly to Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland "for their groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics."

Nobel Laureate Arthur Ashkin has been awarded the Nobel Prize for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems, while Laureates Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland have been awarded the prize for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses.

Ashkin is American, Mourou is French and Strickland is Canadian.

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Nobel Prize in Physics celebrates 'groundbreaking' laser breakthroughs

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