Stockholm: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today decided to conferred the Nobel Prize 2018 on Arthur Ashkin (USA), Gérard Mourou (France) and Donna Strickland (Canada) in physics for “groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics.”
According to the official Twitter handle of the Nobel Prize, Dr. Ashkin has been awarded the Prize “for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems,” while Dr. Mourou and Dr. Strickland have been awarded “for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses.”
The physics prize honours researchers for discoveries, in phenomena as enormous as ‘The Big Bang’ and as tiny as single particles of light.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences decided that the $1.01 million reward will be shared by the trio.
American James Allison and Japan’s Tasuku Honjo on Monday won the Nobel medicine prize for groundbreaking work in fighting cancer with the body’s own immune system.
While the Nobel chemistry prize will be announced on Wednesday, the peace prize will be announced on Friday.
Likewise, the Nobel Prize in economics will be declared on October 8.
Ms Kalinga