Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus, and Alexei Ekimov

Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus, and Alexei Ekimov have received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their work on the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots. The names of the laureates were apparently leaked by Swedish media outlets prior to the official announcement. Normally, the Nobel Prize winners’ names are kept secret until the proper announcement is made. Quantum dots have a wide range of applications, including in LED television screens, solar panels, and medicine, where they can assist surgeons in tumor removal. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the prize, which has now been increased to 11 million Swedish crowns ($1 million). The Chemistry Nobel is the third prize to be awarded this week, following the Physics and Medicine prizes. Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light to study electron dynamics in matter. Hungarian scientist Katalin Kariko and her US colleague Drew Weissman won the medicine prize for their contributions to mRNA molecule discoveries, which paved the way for COVID-19 vaccines. This story is published without any edits from NDTV staff and is sourced from a syndicated feed.