Joining us are their royal highnesses, the Crown Princess victoria of sweden and prince daniel. Your royal highness, you want to say a few words of welcome and to tell us a little bit about where exactly we are in your palace . Well, thank you. So nobel laureates, ladies and gentlemen, viewers, id like to wish you a warm welcome to the royal palace here in stockholm and to the bernadotte library. This library holds over 100,000 books that used to belong to the Kings And Queens of the house of bernadotte. This is a very special library in that sense. But were not here to read, were here to listen, and were here to listen to the nobel laureates, to their knowledge and wisdom and their contributions to science and economics, so thank you all forjoining today. Thank you for hosting us. Thank you, your royal highness. Thank you. Applause welcome to nobel minds and the first of our two programmes. Laureates, this is the first time that youve been brought together in discussion on television.
joining us are their royal highnesses, the crown princess victoria of sweden and prince daniel. your royal highness, you want to say a few words of welcome and to tell us a little bit about where exactly we are in your palace? well, thank you. so nobel laureates, ladies and gentlemen, viewers, i d like to wish you a warm welcome to the royal palace here in stockholm and to the bernadotte library. this library holds over 100,000 books that used to belong to the kings and queens of the house of bernadotte. this is a very special library in that sense. but we re not here to read. we re here to listen. and we re here to listen to the nobel laureates, to their knowledge and wisdom and their contributions to science and economics. so thank you all forjoining today. thank you for hosting us. thank you, your royal highness. thank you. welcome to nobel minds and the first of our two programmes. laureates, this is the first time that you ve been brought together in discussion on televi
of sweden and prince daniel, as well as students from here in sweden. welcome to nobel minds and the second of our two programmes. laureates, this is the first time that some of you have been brought together in discussion on television. congratulations to you all. thank you. applause. first, let s look at the chemistry prize with its scientific breakthroughs that have myriad uses that will benefit humankind. let s have a short video looking at what the prize for chemistry was made for. it s very strange. the nano world is really, really bizarre. when matter is reduced to its smallest dimensions, it s made up of quantum dots nanoparticles so tiny that their size determines their properties. alexey ekimov, moungi bawendi and louis brus discovered and developed this artificially created collection of semiconducting nanoparticles. they are just a few millionths of a millimetre wide and glow blue, red or green when exposed to light. quantum dots already have commercial and scie
the nano world is really, really bizarre. when matter is reduced to its smallest dimensions, it s made up of quantum dots nanoparticles so tiny that their size determines their properties. alexey ekimov, moungi bawendi and louis brus discovered and developed this artificially created collection of semiconducting nanoparticles. they are just a few millionths of a millimetre wide and glow blue, red or green when exposed to light. quantum dots already have commercial and scientific uses and, infuture, could contribute to flexible electronics, thinner solar cells and encrypted quantum communication. so, moungi bawendi, erm, i don t know, viewers may be watching this programme on qled tv one of the things that have arisen from the work that you ve done so just tell us about how your work collectively can be used to improve lives. so, qleds is one of the biggest moneymaking applications of quantum dots but the field, in the last few decades, has grown enormously and there s a
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