The Nobel Prize 2023 in Chemistry has been awarded to Moungi G
Bawendi, Louis E Brus and Alexei I Ekimov for “the discovery and synthesis of
quantum dots.”
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is the third award to be granted this
week.
On Tuesday, France’s Pierre Agostini, Hungarian-Austrian Ferenc
Krausz and Franco-Swede Anne L’Huillier won the Nobel Prize in Physics. Prior
to that, Hungarian scientist Katalin Kariko and her American colleague Drew
Weissman were awarded the Nobel Medicine Prize.
The Chemistry prize will be followed by the highly watched awards
in Literature, Peace and Economics to be announced on October 5, 6 and 9.
Earlier today, Swedish media reported that the Royal Swedish
Academy of Sciences may have announced the winners of this year’s Nobel Prize
in Chemistry prematurely.
Public broadcaster SVT said the academy sent a press release by
mistake early Wednesday that contained the names of the winners.
The Nobel Prizes are awarded in the memory of inventor Alfred
Nobel, who in his will dictated that his estate should be used to fund “prizes
to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to
humankind.”
In 1968, Sweden’s central bank introduced the Nobel Prize in
Economic Sciences.
The Nobel laureates for these esteemed awards are unveiled in
Stockholm throughout October, with the exception of the Peace Prize, which is
determined by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo.
