The Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be awarded today (Wednesday) to the three scientists Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus, and Alexei I. Ekimov from the United States, for their work in the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots, the members of the prize committee announced.
Before the official announcement of the award by the members of the committee, a statement was sent to the general press by mistake in which the names of the winners were revealed, and the members of the award committee evaded questions asked on the subject.
Yesterday, the winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics were announced, Pierre Agostini from Ohio University in the USA, Anne L'Huillier from Lund University in Sweden, and Ferenc Krausz from the University of Munich in Germany. Following their contribution to the development of special methods for producing extremely short flashes of light.
This was preceded by the winning of the Hungarian biochemist Katalin Karikó and the American doctor Drew Weissman the Nobel Prize for Medicine, following their discoveries that enabled the development of mRNA vaccines.
Today, as mentioned, the winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry were announced and later this week the winners of the additional categories will be announced. The Nobel Prize in Literature will be determined on Thursday, and on Friday the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced - which was awarded this year despite calls not to award the prize due to the war in Ukraine. The last prize, in the field of economics, will be announced next Monday.
