Physicists Win Nobel Prize for Lasers That Stretch, Bend and Blow Up Molecules
Physicists Win Nobel Prize for Lasers That Stretch, Bend and Blow Up Molecules
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
October 4, 20186m 56s
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Show Notes
The laser is a tool of many talents, as the Nobel committee well knows. On Tuesday morning in Stockholm, its members announced the year’s physics prize and rattled off a short list of the technologies it has made possible: barcodes, eye surgery, cancer treatment, welding, cutting materials more precisely than a scalpel. They failed to acknowledge the whimsy it has brought cat owners, although one committee member did mention laser light shows. The laser’s resume keeps growing.
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