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William M. Woodward. Arthur Ashkin (September 2, 1922 – September 21, 2020) was an American scientist and Nobel laureate who worked at Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies. Ashkin has been considered by many as the father of optical tweezers, [1] [2] [3] for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 at age 96, becoming the ...
May 9, 2024 · Arthur Ashkin (born September 2, 1922, New York City, New York—died September 21, 2020, Rumson, New Jersey) was an 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.
Nov 30, 2020 · Arthur Ashkin was the father of optical trapping. Using focused laser beams, he manipulated particles ranging in size from atoms to cells and their components. In 2018, aged 96, he shared the...
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- 2020
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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...
Oct 1, 2020 · Arthur Ashkin, Ph.D. ’52, who won the Nobel Prize in physics in 2018 for pioneering “optical tweezers” that use laser light to capture and manipulate microscopic particles, died Sept. 21 at his home in Rumson, N.J. He was 98.
Jan 29, 2021 · Arthur Ashkin is considered by many to be the father of laser trapping of particles using radiation pressure. In 1970, at the age of 47, Arthur published the first observation that radiation pressure from lasers can “trap” transparent dielectric spheres . It was the dawn of laser optical trapping.
Feb 19, 2021 · Nature Photonics - Radiation pressure exerted by light was a lifelong passion for Arthur Ashkin. He foresaw that light pressure could do useful work and invented the optical tweezers that can...
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