This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be won by the North Americans Moungi Bawendi, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Louis Brus, from Columbia University, and the Russian Alexei Ekimov, who works at Nanocrystals Technology, “for the discovery and synthesis of point quantum.”
A leak prompted Swedish media to release the names of the winners, hours before the official announcement by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Quantum dots are now widely used in LED television screens, solar panels and in medicine, helping surgeons remove tumors.
Bawendi, Brus and Ekimov join Pierre Agostini (French, researcher at Ohio University, USA), Ferenc Krausz (Hungary, based at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany) and Anne L’Huillier (French, scientist at Lund University, Sweden), who won the Nobel Prize in Physics, and scientists Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
After Medicine on Monday and Physics on Tuesday, this is the third Nobel Prize to be announced, followed in the coming days by prizes for Literature, Peace and Economics.
Last year, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to three scientists whose work ensures that pharmaceutical products can be better targeted against cancer, the Americans K. Barry Sharpless and Carolyn R. Bertozzi and the Danish Morten Meldal.
The Nobel Prizes have a monetary value of 11 million Swedish crowns (approximately 950 thousand euros). The money comes from an inheritance from the prize’s creator, the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, who died in 1896. The awards will be presented by King Carlos Gustavo of Sweden at a ceremony to take place in Stockholm on December 10. , the date of his death by Alfred Nobel.
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Source: DN
