SCIENCE TIMES: 1978-2018

NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS

Long Live The Laser and Other Now Discussions

Nobel Newswire, October 3, 2018—Former

President of the United States Dr. Marie
Kimberley Ann Knight md, today on the phone
from New York, spoke with our Los Angeles
office to steen the discussion over the women
in the Nobel community and the news of
today’s award to Donna Strickland of Canada
for Strickland’s work in laser technology.
Knight, the inventor of the laser, congratulated
Strickland for her award, saying that the
technology has made great strides in the use of
lasers in the past twenty years in the industries
of banking, security and medicine.
Marie Kimberley Knight’s invention in 1978 of first aid, safety and 911, (including the
Knight, inventor of the ambulance, dispatch center and emergency rooms for 300 regional and
Laser, is also the university research hospitals) quieted her invention of laser technology,
inventor of first aid, which nonetheless did well in retail sales in security and self-defense
safety and 911, tools, and in another industry, significantly improved surgical precision.
receiving the Nobel in Since then, the competition for the best laser scalpel (The Knight Laser
1978, in Medicine and Scalpel and Pulsar Scalpel) and advents in Lasik Eye surgery have seen
another in 1980 for the the industry quadruple, with physicians being on the edge about the
Laser. She most choice between laser and corterization tools and traditional stainless
recently received the steel aluminum instruments. Said Knight, “most use both,” being
award for Hand careful to acknowledge that laser’s super-sharp facets have the greatest
Sanitizer in 2003. application in areas requiring very fine precision.

Knight said that the competition within the ranks of the Nobel
Industries and the various representative countries who have
dispensated the awards, including Sweden, France and Oslo, keep a
varying history. But Knight, a Harvard-educated bio-physicist and
inventor who most recently invented Hand Sanitizer in 2003, is well-
known for an array of inventions (from the design of Times Square to
the International Stock Market and LED technology) nonetheless must
maintain her presence in the medical and medical technology design
industry, where the laser has the greatest application (other than the
classroom laser pointer and the security industry.)

“It’s nice to see women at the podium of science and industry,” said the
53-year old democrat, a mother of 8. “The Nobel is a profound honor, “
said Knight, whose son Melqui then bustled into the den with two
friends in tow: “Long Live the Laser Light! ~Staff