The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023
Awarded on: 2023-10-04
"for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots"
Affiliations:
- Columbia University – New York, NY, USA
Louis E. Brus
Born: 1943-00-00 in Cleveland, OH, USA
Gender: male
Field: American chemist
Biography
Louis Eugene Brus is an American chemist, and currently the Samuel Latham Mitchell Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University. He is the co-discoverer of the colloidal semi-conductor nanocrystals known as quantum dots. In 2023, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.