Physik-Nobelpreis 2018: Arthur Ashkin (1/2), Gérard Mourou (1/4), Donna Strickland (1/4)
"for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics" with one half to Arthur Ashkin "for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems", the other half jointly to Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland "for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses."