Arthur Ashkin, 96, who retired in 1992 after 40 years at Bell Labs in New Jersey, but remains active in his home laboratory, is the oldest-ever Nobel laureate. He started his work on manipulation ...

Three researchers, Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou, and Donna Strickland, who worked on optical tweezers and chirped pulse amplification win the 2018 award. When Art Ashkin, Steve Chu, and their ...

In 1986, American physicist Arthur Ashkin developed a fascinating tool that could gently pick and move microscopic objects like cells and molecules without touching them. This tool, called optical ...

RUMSON, NEW JERSEY - Arthur Ashkin, the world's oldest Nobel Prize winner, favors comfort over style. When I met him in his New Jersey home, he was sporting a fleece-lined zip-up, corduroy pants ...

Arthur Ashkin of Bell Laboratories in the US won half of the 2018 prize for inventing “optical tweezers”, while Ms Strickland shares the remainder with French man Gerard Mourou, who also has ...

This new research builds off the 2018 work of physicist Arthur Ashkin, who won a Nobel Prize for his work on optical tweezers, which use focused laser beams to hold and move tiny objects.

Three researchers, Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou, and Donna Strickland, who worked on optical tweezers and chirped pulse amplification win the 2018 award. Ashley started at The Scientist in 2018.

The optical trap is one of the greatest findings in optics and photonics. Since the pioneering work by Arthur Ashkin in the 1970s, the optical trap has been employed in a broad range of ...

Scientists Arthur Ashkin, Gerard Mourou and Donna Strickland won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics for breakthroughs in the field of lasers, the award-giving body said on Tuesday. "The inventions ...