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Never was the phrase ‘the blink of an eye’ more apt than for the work of Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland, who shared half the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical laser pulses. Their technique has led to new areas of research in industry and medicine, including laser surgery for eye operations. The duo shared the award with Arthur Ashkin, who developed ‘optical tweezers’, as the Nobel rewarded "groundbreaking inventions in laser physics"