Louis Brus | |
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 Brus in 2008 | |
| Born | August 10, 1943 |
| Education | Rice University (BS) Columbia University (PhD) |
| Known for | quantum dots Brus equation |
| Awards | Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics (2001) National Academy of Sciences (2004) R. W. Wood Prize (2006) Kavli Prize (2008) Willard Gibbs Award (2009)p NAS Award in Chemical Sciences (2010) Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science (2012) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2023) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Chemistry Chemical physics Nanotechnology |
| Institutions | US Naval Research Laboratory Bell Telephone Laboratory Columbia University |
| Thesis | Lifetime Shortening of Na(32p) and T(72S) Quenched by Halogens (1969) |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard Bersohn |
Louis Eugene Brus[1] (born August 10, 1943)[2] is an American chemist, and currently the Samuel Latham Mitchell Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University. He is the co-discoverer of the colloidal semi-conductor nanocrystals known as quantum dots.[3] In 2023, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- ^ "Louis Eugene Brus". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. September 13, 2023. Retrieved October 4, 2023.
- ^ Profile of Louis Eugene Brus
- ^ Brus, Louis E. (1984). "Electron–electron and electron-hole interactions in small semiconductor crystallites: The size dependence of the lowest excited electronic state". The Journal of Chemical Physics. 80 (4403): 4403–4409. Bibcode:1984JChPh..80.4403B. doi:10.1063/1.447218. Retrieved January 30, 2015.