Professor Louis Brus, a longtime professor and an alumnus of Columbia University, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Brus was recognized along with two other scientists—Moungi G. Bawendi of MIT and Alexei I. Ekimov of Nanocrystals Technology Inc.—for his work on the “discovery and development of quantum dots, nanoparticles so tiny that their size determines their properties.”
Brus is currently the Samuel Latham Mitchill Professor Emeritus, and Special Research Scientist at Columbia. He is one of 87 Columbians—alumni, faculty, adjunct faculty, researchers, and administrators—to win a Nobel Prize.
In this video interview with Columbia News, Brus explains the science behind the prize and that he’ll celebrate with his colleagues and share a toast with two other Nobel laureates from Columbia: Joachim Frank, winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and Martin Chalfie, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. To read more about Brus and the 2023 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, read the Columbia News Story.
