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Frenchman charged for illegal base jump Sydney, Australia

French national claim- Laser pioneers win Aing to be a former le - gionnaire leapt from a Syd- ney crane and parachuted over early morning com- muters in a pre-dawn base jump, police said Tuesday, Nobel Physics Prize describing the stunt as reck- less. Police said they arrested Most recent Nobel Physics the 24-year-old man who Ashkin was honoured Nobel Prize in Physics broke into a construction • Prize winners site and scaled 250 metres for his invention of (820 feet) of the crane, “optical tweezers” that 2018: Arthur Ashkin (US), Gerard before jumping at around grab particles, atoms, KNOW WHAT Mourou (France) and Donna 3.15am (1715 GMT Monday) viruses and other Strickland (Canada) for inventions and sailing over traffic in in the laser field used for advanced the city hotspot of Darling living cells with their precision instruments in corrective Harbour with a faulty par- laser beam fingers eye surgery and industry. achute. Arthur Ashkin (USA), Gérard Mourou (FRA) and Donna Strickland (CAN) Strickland is the first have won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics for their groundbreaking female Nobel laure- 2017: Barry Barish, Kip Thorne He was charged with Mourou and inventions in the field of laser physics breaking into the site and • ate to be named in and Rainer Weiss (US) for the Strickland -- only the discovery of gravitational waves, a posing a risk to public safe- PHYSICS PRIZE IN NUMBERS third woman to win the three years and is phenomenon predicted by Albert ty. 111 Nobel Prizes in Physics awarded from 1901 to 2017 only the third wom- Physics Prize -- won Einstein a century ago as part of his “I didn’t want to make 1 25 3 an to have won the theory of general relativity. trouble for anybody,” the for helping develop a double Age of Women man identified as Jonathan physics prize; the method to generate winner, youngest awarded first was Marie Curie 2016: David Thouless, Duncan Perherin told commer- John laureate, prize, Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz cial television broadcaster ultra-short optical pulses Bardeen, Lawrence including in 1903. Bragg Marie Curie (Britain) for their study of strange Channel Ten. awarded prize , awarded in 1903, in 1956 and 1972 prize in 1915 and Strickland in 2018 Source: Nobelprize.org phenomena in unusual phases, Stockholm, Sweden Pictures: Nobel Foundation, Newscom, Getty Images, J. Barande, University of Waterloo © GRAPHIC NEWS or states, of matter, such as superconductors, superfluids or hree scientists yesterday thin magnetic films. Chinese destroyer won the Nobel Physics A major breakthrough came France and the University of that it is not due to male chau- TPrize for inventing op- in 1987 when Ashkin used the Michigan in the US, while Strick- vinism bias on the award com- 2015: Takaaki Kajita (Japan) and sails close to US tical lasers that have paved the tweezers to capture living bac- land, his student, is a professor mittees, instead attributing it Arthur McDonald (Canada) for their warship way for advanced precision in- teria without harming them, the at the University of Waterloo in to the fact that laboratory doors work on neutrinos. struments used in corrective Academy noted. Canada. were closed to women for so 2014: Isamu Akasaki (Japan), Washington, United States eye surgery and in industry, the Ashkin, who made his dis - long. “It’s a small percentage for Hiroshi Amano (Japan) and Shuji jury said. covery while working at AT&T Women are ‘out there’ sure, that’s why we are taking Nakamura (US) for their work on Chinese warship Arthur Ashkin of the United Bell Laboratories from 1952 to Speaking by phone to the acad- measures to encourage more LED lamps. Asailed within yards of States won one half of the nine 1991, is the oldest winner of a emy, a moved Strickland said nominations because we don’t an American destroyer -- million Swedish kronor (about Nobel prize, beating out Amer- she was thrilled to receive the want to miss anyone,” the head body’s natural defences can fight forcing it to change course $1.01 million or 870,000 euros) ican Leonid Hurwicz who was Nobel prize that has been the of the Academy, Goran Hansson, cancer. -- in an “unsafe and unpro- prize, while Gerard Mourou of 90 when he won the 2007 Eco- least accessible for women. said on Tuesday. The winners of the chemis- fessional” encounter as the France and Donna Strickland nomics Prize. “We need to celebrate women Last year, US astrophysicists try prize will be announced on US vessel was in contested of Canada shared the other half. Meanwhile Mourou, 74, and physicists because they’re out Barry Barish, Kip Thorne and Wednesday, followed by the waters in the South China Ashkin, 96, was honoured for Strickland -- only the third there... I’m honoured to be one Rainer Weiss won the physics peace prize on Friday. The eco- Sea, an official said Monday. his invention of “optical twee- woman to win the Physics Prize of those women.” prize for the discovery of grav- nomics prize will wrap up the The USS Decatur guid- zers” that grab particles, atoms, -- won for helping develop a Before her, only Marie Curie itational waves, predicted by Nobel season on Monday, Oc- ed-missile destroyer was viruses and other living cells method to generate ultra-short and Maria Goeppert Mayer had Albert Einstein a century ago tober 8. For the first time since conducting what the mili- with their laser beam fingers. optical pulses, “the shortest and won the physics prize, in 1903 as part of his theory of general 1949, the Swedish Academy has tary calls a “freedom of nav- With this he was able to use most intense laser pulses ever and 1963 respectively. relativity. postponed the announcement of igation operation” Sunday, the radiation pressure of light created by mankind,” the jury The Royal Swedish Acade- On Monday, two immunol- the 2018 Nobel Literature Prize when it passed within 12 to move physical objects, “an said. Their technique is now my of Sciences has in the past ogists, James Allison of the US until next year, amid a #MeToo nautical miles of Gaven and old dream of science fiction,” used in corrective eye surgery. lamented the small number of and Tasuku Honjo of Japan, scandal and bitter internal dis- Johnson reefs in the remote the Royal Swedish Academy of Mourou was affiliated with women laureates in the science won this year’s Nobel Medicine pute that has prevented it from Spratly Islands. Sciences said. the Ecole Polytechnique of fields in general. It has insisted Prize for research into how the functioning properly. The 12-mile distance is commonly accepted as con- stituting the territorial wa- ters of a landmass. A rare ray of hope in quake zone Spain smashes Azwan found his wife Dewi alive and well after she was swept away in the tsunami terror ring Palu, Indonesia found an evacuation post where ginning to accept “God’s way”, she stayed overnight. his wife appeared, injured and AFP | Madrid, Spain t was two agonising days of “No food, no water,” she re- limping towards the family Isearches through makeshift called. “We were told to wait home. olice in Spain have dis- morgues and hospitals before until it was safe, while the after- “When she got off the motor- Pmantled a group that Azwan found his wife Dewi alive shocks kept coming.” bike -- it was euphoria,” he said. allegedly indoctrinated and well after she was swept On the other side of the city “Everyone was crying. Our and recruited jihadists at away in the tsunami that crashed her husband, Azwan, was strick- relatives broke into tears, they 17 prisons across the coun- into the Indonesian city of Palu. en with worry having survived came to hug her.” try, the interior ministry Recounting the story beside the quake with their young Dewi thanked God she was said yesterday. Police have her at a small roadside stall in daughter but without news of given “another chance” but was questioned 25 prisoners the quake-hit city, the 38-year- his wife. still struggling to come to grips in different jails who are old civil servant struggled to After night fell, he began with the ordeal. “accused of being part of keep his emotions in check, tears the grim task that would con- “Even now I can’t believe I’m a group close to Daesh welling up behind his glasses. sume him for close to 48 hours: here alive,” she said. which was dedicated to “I was so happy, so emotion- Checking patients and body “I’m still traumatised, espe- radicalising other prison- al -- thank god I could see her bags at the city’s overrun med- cially because my sibling has not ers,” the ministry said in a again,” Azwan, who like many ical centres. “When I couldn’t yet been found.” statement. Indonesians only has one name, Azwan hugging his wife Dewi Prasasti in front of their house and family find my wife in any of the bags At least 844 people are al - The majority were Mo- said. His is a rare story of hope, members in Palu, Central Sulawesi I went back to the hospital, the ready known to have died in roccans, or Spanish nation- in a place where the sense of de- police hospital, and checked the the twin disaster. The United als of Moroccan origin, a spair, grief and loss hangs thick. morgue,” he said. Nations Office for the Coordi- Spanish anti-terrorism Dewi was registering guests ing at her. “A wave came and shouting ‘Tsunami! Tsunami!’,” “There were a massive nation of Humanitarian Affairs source said. The rest were for a festival at a beachside ho- hit me hard. When I regained she said. amount of dead bodies there. It has warned that 191,000 peo- Spanish nationals who had tel when the tremor sent a jolt consciousness, suddenly I was Her clothes ripped and torn, was so messy -- on the terrace, ple are in urgent need of help, converted to Islam and a through the ground. on the street in front of the ho- she wandered through the de- inside, on top of each other.” among them 46,000 children Danish national. Soon a wall of water was rush- tel. I remember hearing people bris-littered streets until she On Sunday, just as he was be- and 14,000 elderly.