Update: DiCaprio won Best Actor at the 88th Academy Awards. He now has one Oscar under his belt. Earlier: Although Oscar nominations haven't been announced, it is highly anticipated that DiCaprio will be nominated by the Academy for his role in the Golden Globe winning motion picture, The Revenant. This wouldn't be the first time DiCaprio was nominated for an Oscar. In 1994, DiCaprio was nominated in the Best Supporting Actor category for What's Eating Gilbert Grape, and for Best Actor in 2005, 2007, and 2014 for The Aviator, Blood Diamond, and The Wolf of Wall Street, respectively.
The first laser was built in 1960 by Theodore H. Maiman at Hughes Laboratories, based on theoretical work by Charles Hard Townes and Arthur Leonard Schawlow. A laser differs from other sources of light in that it emits light coherently.
Wafer-Scale Micro-Optics Fulfill Promise. Early inventions in the field of planar diffractive and refractive micro-optics date back more than a century. In 1891, Gabriel Lippmann invented âinterference color photography,â later called Lippmann holograms. This invention was made without lasers and long before Dennis Gabor invented holography in 1948.