Moungi Bawendi | |
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منجي الباوندي | |
Born | |
Education | Harvard University (BA, MA) University of Chicago (PhD) |
Known for | hot-injection synthesis of quantum dots |
Relatives | M. Salah Baouendi (father) |
Awards | Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2023) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Chemistry Quantum chemistry |
Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Thesis | From the Biggest to the Smallest Polyatomic Molecules: Statistical Mechanics and Quantum Mechanics in Action (1988) |
Doctoral advisor | Karl Freed Takeshi Oka |
Doctoral students | Christopher B. Murray Cherie Kagan[1] |
Moungi Bawendi (Arabic: منجي الباوندي; born 15 March 1961)[2][3] is an American–Tunisian–French chemist.[4][5] He is currently the Lester Wolfe Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[6][7] Bawendi is known for his advances in the chemical production of high-quality quantum dots.[8] For this work, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2023.
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