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Telephone interview, October 2018 https://youtu.be/_atdJmegjXc “When I described catching living things with light people said: ‘Don’t exaggerate Ashkin'” Arthur Ashkin took a break from his current research to talk about the “old research” that led to his breakthrough discovery and earned him a Nobel Prize. Listen to the telephone interview with Arthur Ashkin following the…

Interview, November 2020 Donna Strickland in the laboratory. Courtesy of University of Waterloo “Science is about wondering why” Donna Strickland was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for her work on ultra-short, high-intensity laser pulses. In this interview she talks about the challenge of learning physics – and why she thinks it’s so important to…

https://youtu.be/sWsXyhuRoXo Announcement of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics by Professor Göran K. Hansson, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on 2 October 2018. Interview about the awarded work https://youtu.be/y-zBw-cwxvc “This was science fiction for a long time” Immediately following the announcement, Mats Larsson, member of the Nobel Committee for Physics, was…

Swedish 2 oktober 2018 har beslutat utdela Nobelpriset i fysik 2018 ”för banbrytande uppfinningar inom laserfysik” med ena hälften till Arthur Ashkin Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, USA ”för den optiska pincetten och dess tillämpning på biologiska system” och med andra hälften gemensamt till Gérard Mourou École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, Frankrike University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA och…

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 The inventions being honoured this year have revolutionised laser physics. Extremely small objects and incredibly fast processes now appear in a new light. Not only physics, but also chemistry, biology and medicine have gained precision instruments for use in basic research and practical applications. Tools made of light Arthur…

English 2 October 2018 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 “for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics” with one half to Arthur Ashkin Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, USA “for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems” and the other half jointly to Gérard Mourou École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France…