Brus, Louis

Louis Brus, 1943– , b. Cleveland, Ohio, American chemist, studied at Rice University (B.S., 1965) and Columbia University (Ph.D., 1969). He is Samuel Latham Mitchell Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at Columbia. Brus, along with Alexei I. Ekimov and Moungi Bawendi, was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in chemistry for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.

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