Ashkin, 96, is the oldest person to be
awarded the Nobel Prize.
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Ashkin invented optical“tweezers” that could grab particles,
atoms, viruses and other living cells.
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Scientists Arthur Ashkin, Gerard Mourou
and Donna Strickland won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics.
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Arthur Ashkin was awarded one half of the prize, and
the other half was awarded jointly to Donna Strickland and Gérard Mourou,"for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics.".