The 2018 Nobel Physics Prize has been awarded to three researchers for developments in laser physics with 
Source: Nobel Media ABmedical and industrial applications.
Arthur Ashkin of Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey, was awarded one half of the nine million Swedish kronor (about U.S. $1.01 million or 870,000 euros) prize for his invention of optical tweezers that use the radiation pressure of laser light to move particles, viruses and other living cells toward the center of a beam.
Gérard Mourou of École Polytechnique, France, and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, shared the remainder of the prize with Donna Strickland of the University of Waterloo, Canada, for a method designed to generate high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses. Their chirped pulse amplification technology is now standard for high-intensity lasers and is used in corrective eye surgery.
Strickland is the third female recipient of the physics prize. Previous recipients were Marie Sklodowska Curie (1903) and Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1963).
