The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018
Awarded on: 2018-10-02
"for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems"
Affiliations:
- Bell Laboratories – Holmdel, NJ, USA
Arthur Ashkin
Born: 1922-09-02 in New York, NY, USA
Gender: male
Field: American physicist (1922–2020)
Biography
Arthur Ashkin was an American scientist and Nobel laureate who worked at Bell Labs. Ashkin has been considered by many as the father of optical tweezers, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 at age 96, becoming the oldest Nobel laureate until 2019 when John B. Goodenough was awarded at 97. He resided in Rumson, New Jersey.