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Arthur Ashkin

Physicist; Nobel laureate in physics for the invention of optical tweezers

United States · 1922–2020

Science and medicine

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Physicist at Bell Laboratories who invented optical tweezers, using laser light to trap and move particles and living cells. Awarded a share of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics at the age of 96.

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Question What are you most proud of? Identity & self read 102 other answers →

I didn’t realise I’m the oldest ever! So I just about made it, huh? Because you can’t be dead and win … If you’re a winner of the National Inventors Hall of Fame you can be dead. I won that prize a couple of years ago and I was very proud of that. That is the most, I would say, most important prize I’ve won.

Recorded Adam Smith, Telephone interview following the announcement of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, The Nobel Prize, 2 October 2018 source ↗

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