American, French, Canadian Scientists Get Nobel Physics Prize
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences gave half of the prize to Ashkin while the two other researchers will share the other half.
The Academy said their work has led to new scientific inventions it hailed as "tools made of light," such as optical tweezers that use "the radiation pressure of light to move physical objects," and a new method for generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses.
The remaining two Nobel Prizes of 2018, for chemistry and peace, will be announced on Wednesday and Friday, respectively. The literature prize will not be given this year because of a sexual misconduct scandal at the Swedish Academy, the body that decides the award. The Nobel Memorial Prize for Economic Sciences will be announced on Monday, October 8.