3 scientists have won the Nobel prize in physics, and one of them is from the University of Michigan.
Arthur Ashkin of the Bell Laboratories in New Jersey is the oldest Nobel winner. He is 96.
Donna Strickland of the University of Waterloo in Canada is the third woman to win in physics.
Gerard Morou of the Ecole Polytechnique in France and the University of Michigan will share half the prize money… 1-million dollars… with Strickland. Ashkin gets the other half.
Ashkin developed ‘optical tweezers’, that can grab tiny particles like viruses, using the radiation pressure of light.
Strickland and Morou developed laser pulses that are used in industry and medicine, including laser eye surgery.
