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Louis E. Brus
Quantum dots co-discoverer
Louis Eugene Brus (August 10, 1943 – January 11, 2026) was an American chemist, and the Samuel Latham Mitchell Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University. He was the co-discoverer of the colloidal semi-conductor nanocrystals known as quantum dots. In 2023, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Louis Eugene Brus was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on August 10, 1943. During high school in Roeland Park, Kansas, he developed an interest for chemistry and physics.
He entered Rice University in 1961 with a Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) college scholarship, which required him to… More on Wikipedia →
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