The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023
Awarded on: 2023-10-04
"for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots"
Affiliations:
- Nanocrystals Technology Inc. – New York, NY, USA
Aleksey Yekimov
Born: 1945-00-00 in Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia)
Gender: male
Field: Russian physicist (born 1945)
Biography
Alexey Ekimov or Aleksey Yekimov is a Russian solid state physicist and a pioneer in nanomaterials research. He discovered the semiconductor nanocrystals known as quantum dots in 1981, while working at the Vavilov State Optical Institute. In 2023, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this discovery.