Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to trio who discovered bizarre quantum dots

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The 2023 Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to three scientists for the discovery and development of quantum dots — super-tiny semiconductors that can be used in LED lights and TV screens, as well as to aid doctors in the removal of cancer tissue. 

Moungi Bawendi, professor of chemistry at MIT, Louis Brus, professor emeritus at Columbia University, and Alexei Ekimov, a physicist at Nanocrystals Technology Inc. in New York, will share the 11 million Swedish krona (around $1 million) prize for their role as “pioneers in the exploration of the nanoworld,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm said at a news conference Wednesday (Oct. 4).