
Arthur Ashkin
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 2018for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems
- Citizenship
United States
- Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 9/2/1922
- place of birth
- Brooklyn
- date of death
- 9/21/2020
- place of death
- Rumson
- Lived
- 98 years
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- occupation
- researcher
- physicist
- field of work
- physicist
- laser science
- educated at
- Columbia University
- Cornell University
- academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
- end time: 1952
- James Madison High School
- employer
- Lucent
- Bell Labs
- member of
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- National Academy of Engineering
- National Academy of Sciences
- American Physical Society