The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics recognises two very notable pieces of work in the field of lasers. This year, the highest honor has been awarded to Arthur Ashkin, a 96-year old former employee of Bell Labs in the US and now the oldest Nobel laureate in the world. Ashkin was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for creating optical tweezers which can hold particles, atoms, viruses and other living cells with laser beam fingers. But Ashkin, with his age, was not the only record breaker in the history of the Nobel awards. The second half of the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2018 was awarded to Physicist Donna Strickland, an associate professor at the University of Waterloo. Strickland shares her Nobel Prize with Gérard Mourou of École Polytechnique in France for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses. Strickland’s win is a significant milestone because she is the first and only living female recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics. She is also the third woman in the world to be awarded a Nobel Prize in this field and the first woman in more than half a century (55 years) to be given the highest academic honor for Physics, which till date has had 209 recipients. Previously, Marie Curie and Maria Goeppert-Mayer won the prestigious award. While Ashkin started working with lasers in the 1960s and has had multiple scientists build on his research, including Nobel Laureate Steven Chu, Strickland and Mourou paired up in the 1980s for their work on the compression of amplified chirped optical pulses. Together, Strickland and Mourou succeeded in creating the shortest, most intense laser beams which can be used to make very precise cuts. The technique invented by the two scientists paved the way for laser machines used in millions of corrective eye surgeries around the world. Since Strickland's win, multiple reports have suggested how the Physicist did not even have a Wikipedia page before the prize was announced on October 2, even though her male counterpart Mourou had one. Both scientistist have helped further the development of lasers and were co-authors of the paper that finally led to the discovery of ultra-short optical pulses. While Mourou has had Wikipedia's stamp of approval since 1985, Strickland's page only came up early Tuesday morning. In fact, Strickland's Wikipedia entry was reportedly rejected by a moderator back in 2018 citing that the "subject" did not qualify to have a Wikipedia entry. It is extremely important to note the equal, if not bigger achievements of women in the field of technology and science. It is crucial that due recognition is given to the meritorious scientific work of women so as to increase our participation in the industry and give young girls goals to look forward to. It is saddening to see that even in this day and age, this is a concept that need frequent reinforcement. However, we do hope that just like Professor Strickland, more and more women are recognised for their immense contribution to scientific study in the future.
from Latest Technology News https://ift.tt/2ydEm2i
flipkart
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
flipkart
Edit videos on your mobile phone using the YouTube Create App
YouTube has introduced its new mobile app called ‘YouTube Create’. This app offers an easy way for creators to edit their videos right from ...
- September 2023 (83)
- August 2023 (126)
- July 2023 (113)
- June 2023 (102)
- May 2023 (162)
- April 2023 (160)
- March 2023 (148)
- February 2023 (136)
- January 2023 (173)
- December 2022 (163)
- November 2022 (163)
- October 2022 (181)
- September 2022 (178)
- August 2022 (174)
- July 2022 (136)
- June 2022 (125)
- May 2022 (146)
- April 2022 (130)
- March 2022 (143)
- February 2022 (132)
- January 2022 (145)
- December 2021 (157)
- November 2021 (239)
- October 2021 (269)
- September 2021 (270)
- August 2021 (212)
- July 2021 (252)
- June 2021 (225)
- May 2021 (184)
- April 2021 (181)
- March 2021 (343)
- February 2021 (299)
- January 2021 (320)
- December 2020 (334)
- November 2020 (305)
- October 2020 (318)
- September 2020 (340)
- August 2020 (347)
- July 2020 (337)
- June 2020 (310)
- May 2020 (308)
- April 2020 (418)
- March 2020 (316)
- February 2020 (282)
- January 2020 (329)
- December 2019 (323)
- November 2019 (393)
- October 2019 (403)
- September 2019 (386)
- August 2019 (454)
- July 2019 (579)
- June 2019 (509)
- May 2019 (697)
- April 2019 (725)
- March 2019 (746)
- February 2019 (702)
- January 2019 (932)
- December 2018 (758)
- November 2018 (729)
- October 2018 (835)
- September 2018 (838)
- August 2018 (548)
- March 2018 (24)
-
Apple announced the latest operating system for their iPhones, iOS 17 during WWDC 2023 event. Now, after three months, the tech giant has fi...
-
Asus will launch the ROG Gaming smartphone in India at 12pm tomorrow. The gaming-centric smartphone with Asus' signature ROG looks was ...
-
Battlegrounds Mobile India, the Indian version of PUBG Mobile, will require consent form a parent or guardian for players under 18 years. Th...
No comments:
Post a Comment