Trio wins Nobel Chemistry Prize for quantum dots

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to French-born Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus of the United States and Russian-born Alexei Ekimov, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm announced on Wednesday.

The three scientists won the award for "the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots," which illuminate computer monitors and television screens and are used by doctors to map tumors. The chemistry award is the third Nobel of the season after the medicine prize and the physics prizes were announced earlier in the week.