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Oct 1, 2020 · October 1, 2020. Facebook Twitter Email Share. 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.
Sep 15, 2021 · Most famously, his invention of optical trapping, more specifically optical tweezers, led to Ashkin’s 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics. It was in 1970 at Bell Labs, New Jersey, that he published his first and seminal paper on optical trapping using radiation pressure.
Sep 19, 2023 · Nobel Laureate and Honorary Member Arthur Ashkin was known for his pioneering work to create optical tweezers. He received a B.A. in physics from Columbia College, USA, in 1947 and a Ph.D. in nuclear physics from Cornell University, USA, in 1952. Ashkin worked at the Columbia Radiation Lab from 1942 to 1945 while in the Army and at AT&T Bell ...
Oct 2, 2018 · Columbia alumnus Arthur Ashkin (CC 1947) has won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his groundbreaking research in laser physics. He will receive half the $2 million prize for his work with optical tweezers that grab particles, atoms, viruses and other living cells with their laser beam fingers.
Oct 3, 2018 · Arthur Ashkin’s optical tweezers: the Nobel Prize-winning technology that changed biology. Published: October 3, 2018 1:14am EDT. X (Twitter) The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded...
Oct 2, 2018 · Arthur Ashkin, Ph.D. ’52, whose invention of “optical tweezers” realized his own science fiction dream of being able to move objects with light, was among three physicists named by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences as winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in physics. The announcement was made Oct. 2 in Stockholm.
Dec 6, 2020 · The father of the optical tweezers, Arthur Ashkin, passed away peacefully at his home in Rumson, NJ, on September 21, 2020, at the age of 98, two years after being awarded the 2018 Physics Nobel Prize. Family and Childhood. Arthur Ashkin was born in Brooklyn, NY, on Septem-ber 2, 1922, the son of humble eastern European Jewish immigrants.
