- The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 was awarded jointly to Arthur Ashkin (USA), Gérard Mourou (France), and Donna Strickland (Canada). - Arthur Ashkin received half of the prize for his invention of optical tweezers and their application to biological systems. - Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland shared the other half for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses, known as Chirped Pulse Amplification (CPA). - Both optical tweezers and CPA are significant breakthroughs in the field of laser physics.
The Nobel Prize for Physics in 2018 was awarded for pioneering work in which field?
Asked in HAS Prelims 2019 · Topic: Scientists & Inventions (Invention of the Laser and its Principles)
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