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Nobel Prize 2023 in Chemistry Jointly Awarded to Moungi Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexey Ekimov
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Alexey Ekimov or Aleksey Yekimov (Russian: Алексей Екимов; born 1945) is a Russian solid state physicist and a pioneer in nanomaterials research. He discovered the semiconductor nanocrystals known as quantum dots in 1981, while working at the Vavilov State Optical Institute. In 2023, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this discovery.
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BREAKING: Scientists Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus, and Alexei Ekimov win the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for “the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.” #NobelPrize READ: https://trib.al/Cp5VOSq
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