BREAKING: 2023 Nobel Prize awarded to three scientists for developing quantum dots

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The 2023 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to a trio of scientists who worked to discover and develop quantum dots – nanoparticles so small that their size determines their properties.


The prize was won by Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov, the committee announced in Stockholm on Wednesday.


Quantum dots – electronic crystals – are small enough to operate in the fascinating realm of physics called quantum mechanics, and are used in LED lights and TV screens, as well as by surgeons when removing cancer tissue.


But the committee inadvertently published the names of the three scientists hours before the official announcement.


Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet published a copy of an email it said was from the academy, Reuters reported.


Johan Aqvist, chair of the Nobel committee for chemistry, told Reuters: “It is a mistake by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Our meeting starts at 0930 CET (0730 GMT) so no decision has been made yet. The winners have not been selected.”


Bawendi, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Brus, professor emeritus at Columbia University, are American. Ekimov is Russian and works for Nanocrystals

 Technology Inc.


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