2018 Noblr Prize for Physics - 3 Scientists Share this year's prize Tuesday Oct 02,2018

Arthur Ashkin, Gerard Mourou, Donna Strickland win 2018 Nobel Prize in physics

 

The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to three scientists working the field of laser physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced here on Tuesday Oct 02,2018

The academy said the award is "for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics" with one half to Arthur Ashkin and the other half jointly to Gerard Mourou and Donna Strickland.

The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to a woman for the first time in 55 years, and for only the third time in its history. Donna Strickland, a Canadian physicist, was awarded the 2018 prize jointly with Gérard Mourou, from France, for their work on generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses. They share the award with an American, Arthur Ashkin, who at 96 becomes the oldest Nobel Laureate, for developing "optical tweezers."

Dr Strickland is the third woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics, after Maria Goeppert-Mayer and Marie Curie.

"We need to celebrate women physicists because we're out there. I'm honoured to be one of those women," said Strickland