More physics Nobel Prize videos: http://bit.ly/SSNobel The 2018 Nobel Prize in chemistry: https://youtu.be/fMKtFKphuds More links and info below ↓ ↓ ↓ This video features Professor Mike Merrifield from the University of Nottingham. Animation by Pete McPartlan. The winners of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics were half to Arthur Ashkin “for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems” and the other half jointly to Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland “for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses”. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2018/press-release/ Visit our website at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/ We're on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/sixtysymbols And Twitter at http://twitter.com/sixtysymbols This project features scientists from The University of Nottingham http://bit.ly/NottsPhysics Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sixtysymbols Sixty Symbols videos by Brady Haran http://www.bradyharanblog.com Email list: http://eepurl.com/YdjL9