Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov have been jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for synthesizing quantum dots. You could be looking at them right now in the pixels of your computer monitor.
Quantum physics, click chemistry and evolutionary breakthroughs were the dominant themes for this year’s winners of the world’s best known s.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences recognized the contributions of the trio Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal, and Barry Sharpless as the Chemistry Nobel Prize 2022 was given to them for the concept of Click Chemistry.