At about 17:45 on October 4, Beijing time, in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be awarded to Moungi G. Bawendi, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States, and Columbia University professor Louis E. Brus and American Nanocrystal Technology scientist Alexey I. Ekimov, in recognition of their contributions to the discovery and development of quantum dots.
The winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Moungi G. Bawendi, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Louis E. Brus, a professor at Columbia University, and Alexey I. Ekimov, a scientist at the American Nanocrystal Technology Company.
The prize money for each Nobel Prize in 2023 will increase from 10 million Swedish kronor last year to 11 million Swedish kronor, approximately RMB 7.25 million.
The Chemistry Prize is one of the research fields mentioned in the will of Swedish chemist and inventor of nitroglycerin dynamite Alfred Bernhard Nobel to establish prizes.
"The above interest shall be divided into five equal parts and distributed as follows: /---/One copy for the person who made the most important discovery or improvement in chemistry..." On November 27, 1895, Nobel signed his third and final will in Paris, leaving most of his wealth to establish a series of awards, the Nobel Prize.
The Nobel Prize medal was first awarded in 1901. Picture: Alexander Mahmoud
According to data released by the official website of the Nobel Prize (www.nobelprize.org), a total of 189 people won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry from 1901 to 2022.
The oldest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry so far is American physicist John B. Goodenough. He was 97 years old when he won the chemistry prize in 2019. He is also the oldest recipient of the Nobel Prize in any category.
To date, the youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry is French physicist Frédéric Joliot. He was only 35 years old when he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935, together with his wife Irène Joliot-Curie.
British biochemist Frederick Sanger and American chemist K. Barry Sharpless both won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice.