+ Arthur Ashkin, at 96, is the oldest nobel prize laureate ever ( https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists/nobel-laureates-by-age/ https://www.nobelprize.org/pr

+ Arthur Ashkin, at 96, is the oldest nobel prize laureate ever ( https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists/nobel-laureates-by-age/ https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists/nobel-laureates-by-a... ), and declined an interview this morning because he is "busy doing research". He did much of is research at Bell Labs and has his own lab at home now. + The most cited Strickland / Mourou paper is this one: Compression of amplified chirped optical pulses. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.673.148&rep=rep1&type=pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.673... It has a humble length of 3 pages and has collected 4600 citations in 23 years. + This is a good time to remember Lise Meitner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Meitner#Nobel_Prize_for_nuclear_fission https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Meitner#Nobel_Prize_for_n... and check out James Watson's 'opinion' of Rosalind Franklin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBWPzdyyPic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBWPzdyyPic But also note that Marie Curie was one of very few nobel laureates who got awarded twice, and she got her awards very early on in the history of the nobel prize ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Nobel_laureates_with_multiple_Nobel_awards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Nobel_laureates_with_... ).