At about 17:45 Beijing time on October 4, in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that the 2023 Nobel Prize in chemistry would be awarded to moungi g. bawendi, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of technology, Louis E. brus, a professor at Columbia University, and Alexey I. ekimov, a scientist at the US nanocrystal technology company, in recognition of their contributions to the discovery and development of quantum dots.
