Nobel physics prize winners include first female laureate for 55 years –as it happened

American Arthur Ashkin, Frenchman Gi(C)rard Mourou and Canadian Donna Strickland share annual award for advances in laser physics

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Thanks for joining us for the live coverage of the 2018 Nobel prize for physics. Don't forget to come back tomorrow to find out who has scooped the prize for chemistry.

The last thoughts on today's award are from Dr Amelle Zair from King's College London, who is a lecturer in advanced photonics and Dr Seirian Sumner, a behavioural ecologist and co-founder of Soapbox Science, an outreach platform to promote women in science.

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According to an interview from a few years ago, Ashkin felt a bit miffed that he had previously missed out on the Nobel prize when it was awarded in 1997 to a trio of scientists including Steven Chu, one of Ashkin's colleagues, "for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light."

Perhaps today's news is some consolation"