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Arthur Ashkin (September 2, 1922 – September 21, 2020) was an American scientist and Nobel laureate who worked at Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies.
Nov 30, 2020 · A tribute to the physicist who won the Nobel Prize for optical tweezers that trap atoms and proteins. Learn about his life, discoveries and contributions to laser physics and biology.
- Steven Chu
- 2020
Sep 21, 2020 · Arthur Ashkin invented optical tweezers that grab particles, atoms, molecules, and living cells with their laser beam fingers. The tweezers use laser light to push small particles towards the center of the beam and to hold them there. In 1987, Ashkin succeeded in capturing living bacteria without harming them.
May 9, 2024 · Arthur Ashkin, American physicist who was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics for his invention of optical tweezers, which use laser beams to capture and manipulate very small objects. He shared the prize with Canadian physicist Donna Strickland and French physicist Gerard Mourou.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 was awarded "for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics" with one half to Arthur Ashkin "for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems", the other half jointly to Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland "for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses"
Sep 28, 2020 · Arthur Ashkin, a physicist who was awarded a 2018 Nobel Prize for figuring out how to harness the power of light to trap microscopic objects for closer study, calling his invention optical ...
Arthur Ashkin's Nobel Lecture was delivered by René-Jean Essiambre. Figure 1. Crookes radiometer: a) side view b) top view showing the direction of rotation. Thermal effects are responsible for the rotation of the vanes. Black surfaces absorb light which heats up the surface.
