This year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded to Alexey Yekimov, Moungi Bawendi, and Louis Brus, for “the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots”, the Nobel Committee announced on Wednesday.
US chemists Moungi Bawendi and Louis Brus and Russian chemist Alexey Yekimov, who has lived in the US and worked for Nanocrystals Technology since 1999, will share the prize.
“Quantum dots now illuminate computer monitors and television screens based on QLED technology. They also add nuance to the light of some LED lamps, and biochemists and doctors use them to map biological tissue,” the Nobel Committee statement said.
The Royal Swedish Academy Of Sciences revealed the winners of this year’s chemistry prize this morning before the official announcement was made, later blaming it on an error.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 was awarded on Tuesday to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier for “experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter”, while on Monday Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023 “for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19”.