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Arthur Ashkin, CC’47, Wins Nobel Prize in Physics

Arthur Ashkin, CC’47, Wins Nobel Prize in Physics

October 3, 2018
awards   nobel prize   physics  

Ashkin, 96, is the oldest person ever named a Nobel laureate in any category. His achievement allowed scientists to use pressure from light to manipulate tiny organisms without damaging them, “an old dream of science fiction.”

Joachim Frank’s Nobel Prize Story

Joachim Frank’s Nobel Prize Story

December 11, 2017
fundamental science   nobel prize  

Columbia’s Joachim Frank, one of this year’s Nobel Laureates in Chemistry, received his Nobel Medal on December 10 in Stockholm and described his work in electron microscopy in his Nobel lecture.

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