The question
What would you like to be remembered for?Originally asked
Vogue, to one guest at a time, on camera, 73 Questions
A recurring legacy prompt in Vogue's 73 Questions, appearing with only minor wording changes.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Physicist; Nobel laureate in physics for the invention of optical tweezers
I invented optical levitation.
Hilary Brueck, Business Insider interview at Ashkin's home, 26 January 2019 source ↗
As a force for good and a champion of the underdog.
Kind, fun and that I cared.
I don’t care, because I won’t be here.
As an interesting, amusing father by my children.
I want to take Aline to a good restaurant, and we'll have a good meal,
I was very shy, but I knew that this lady was special,…So I had enough nerve to ask for her phone number.
I'm making cheap electricity,
I didn’t realise I’m the oldest ever! So I just about made it, huh? Because you can’t be dead and win … If you’re a winner of the National Inventors Hall of Fame you can be dead. I won that prize a couple of years ago and I was very proud of that. That is the most, I would say, most important prize I’ve won.
Wonder Why would say, 'Why is the sky blue?'…Then Wonder Why would tell you. I was fascinated, because I wanted to know how things worked ... that was my introduction to science.
I invented optical levitation.
Ernst Mayr, Clare Bailey Mosley, Philippa Perry, Mohamed ElBaradei, Graham Norton, Ja’Tovia Gary
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