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Ashkin, Mourou, Strickland win 2018 Nobel Physics Prize for laser research

'The inventions being honoured this year have revolutionised laser physics,' the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said

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Scientists Arthur Ashkin, Gerard Mourou and Donna Strickland won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics for breakthroughs in the field of lasers, the award-giving body said on Tuesday.
 
"The inventions being honoured this year have revolutionised laser physics," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on awarding the nine million Swedish crown ($1 million) prize.
 
"Advanced precision instruments are opening up unexplored areas of research and a multitude of industrial and medical applications," it said in a statement.

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