光学镊子：不可小觑的力。

Optical Tweezers: A Force to Be Reckoned With.

机构信息

Physics Department & LASSP, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.

出版信息

Cell. 2018 Nov 29;175(6):1445-1448. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.11.019.

DOI:10.1016/j.cell.2018.11.019

PMID:30500527

Abstract

The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded jointly to Arthur Ashkin for the discovery and development of optical tweezers and their applications to biological systems and to Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland for the invention of laser chirped pulse amplification. Here we focus on Arthur Ashkin and how his revolutionary work opened a window into the world of molecular mechanics and spurred the rise of single-molecule biophysics.

摘要

2018 年诺贝尔物理学奖授予亚瑟·阿什金（Arthur Ashkin），以表彰他在光镊及其在生物系统中的应用方面的发现和发展；授予热拉尔·穆鲁（Gérard Mourou）和唐娜·斯特里克兰（Donna Strickland），以表彰他们发明的啁啾脉冲放大技术。在这里，我们重点介绍亚瑟·阿什金（Arthur Ashkin），以及他的革命性工作如何打开了分子力学世界的窗户，并推动了单分子生物物理学的兴起。