Nobel Prize in physics, 2018
"for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics"
firstname: Arthur
surname: Ashkin
motivation: "for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems"
firstname: Gérard
surname: Mourou
motivation: "for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses"
firstname: Donna
surname: Strickland
motivation: "for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses"