Graphic toont de winnaars van de Nobelprijs voor natuurkunde en enkele feiten over de prijs.
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Winnaars Nobelprijs voor natuurkunde 2018

October 2, 2018 - Arthur Ashkin (USA), Gérard Mourou (FRA) en Donna Strickland (CAN)
krijgen de Nobelprijs voor natuurkunde 2018 voor hun baanbrekende
ontdekkingen op het gebied van laserfysica.

Sweden's Royal Academy of Sciences, which chose the winners, said Ashkin, 96, developed "optical tweezers" that can grab tiny particles such as viruses without damaging them.

Strickland and Mourou helped develop short and intense laser pulses that have broad industrial and medical applications.

Strickland is the first female Nobel laureate to be named in three years and is only the third woman to have won the physics prize; the first was Marie Curie in 1903.

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PUBLISHED: 02/10/2018; STORY: Graphic News; PICTURES: Getty Images
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