Tunisia-US scientist Moungi Bawendi wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023

Along with American Louis Brus and Russian Alexei Ekimov, Tunisian-American scientist Moungi Bawendi has won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for “the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots”, which light up computer and television screens and are used by doctors to map tumours. Bawendi, 62, is the Lester Wolfe Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The three scientists were awarded the prize on Wednesday for “the discovery and development of quantum dots, nanoparticles so tiny that their size determines their properties”, according to a press…