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Nobel Prize Chemistry 2023
- ChemSpider 3y agoAnyone knows more about this "Nanocrystals Technology Inc., New York" company from Ekimov? I did a quick google search but could not find anything.
- patrick_xian 3y agoEkimov already retired. I think it's also not acceptable to write "unemployed" or "None" as your affiliation as a nobel laureate... Nanocrystals Technology Inc seems to have less than a handful of employees and doesn't have an official website. https://www.newyorkbids.us/new-york-contractors/contractor-5322298-NANOCRYSTALS-TECHNOLOG.htm https://www.newyorkbids.us/new-york-contractors/contractor-5...
- OldGuyInTheClub 3y agoI would guess that it is a consulting company "wrapper" for getting his time.
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- murphyslab 3y agoNice seeing them have what appear to be actual solutions of quantum dots in volumetric flasks, right on the panel's table. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpph2cHx6gk&ab_channel=NobelPrize https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpph2cHx6gk&ab_channel=Nobel...
- wlesieutre 3y agoLink with timestamp https://youtu.be/vpph2cHx6gk?t=220 https://youtu.be/vpph2cHx6gk?t=220 It's funny because it looks exactly like something you'd see in a stock photo of "chemistry." The usual reaction to that being "chemistry isn't flasks of brightly colored liquids, what are you doing?" But in this case it's finally appropriate.
- dekhn 3y agoIt looks like a stock photo, but colors that bright and pure at room temperature is not typical of a chemistry lab! They are quite lovely, IMHO, I absolutely love the spectral purity and brightness.
- murphyslab 3y agoIt depends a lot on what kind of chemistry lab one works in. Having worked at in fluorescence microscopy in my MSc, then at Canada's Nanotechnology Research Centre & at Xerox's Research Centre in Mississauga, and later working with liquid crystals at TU Eindhoven I've had the joy of seeing some incredible colour in the lab. There's so much information which can be encoded spectroscopically, which is one reason why nanoparticles make for such useful probes.
- elashri 3y agoSo the leak was correct! [1] But it is nice that development in quantum dots finally gets its share. [1] https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/nobel-chemistry-prize-winners-names-leaked-hours-before-announcment-report-4448487 https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/nobel-chemistry-prize-winner...
- DoctorOetker 3y agoGiven that only the living qualify for a Nobel prize, Given that leaks demonstrably occur, Given human nature, Given at most 3 can share a Nobel Prize, It is not a question of "if" but "when" eventually a fourth wheel scientist risks being assassinated if consideration of topics for a prize leaks substantially beforehand. Perpetrators could include candidates, but also nationalists (for prestige) of any rank (civilians, national security employees, ...). Perhaps a topic for a film school student? A bizarre cross between "Don't look up" and the French film "Le couperet", with elements of film noir. To make it extra bizarre, have the invention be resurrection technology. Defensive measures the Academy could take could include last minute randomized selection of the topic / breakthrough, probability weighted by dubious nature of death of deceased candidates. Although this risks an escalation where a candidate has larger numbers of random candidates for other discoveries or breakthroughs assassinated...
- jldugger 3y ago> Given at most 3 can share a Nobel Prize, Proposed title of your spy thriller novel: The Four Body Problem.
- isoprophlex 3y agoThe four body problem? That's quite the mexican standoff gone wrong, if all four of them manage to kill eachother.
- tigerlily 3y agoFour being the number of death and all...
- SweetestRug 3y agoVery exciting, especially to see Moungi receive the Nobel. He is such a hardworking, humble, and honest person.
- Cyph0n 3y agoTunisians all over the world are rejoicing haha. I don’t know if he considers himself to be Tunisian, but we’re all extremely proud of him nonetheless!
- OldGuyInTheClub 3y agoI knew Louis Brus during my Bell Labs stint 30+ years ago and am thrilled that he was recognized. Terrific human being and brilliant scientist.
- sdfghswe 3y agoThe Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus, Alexei I. Ekimov “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots”
- cushpush 3y agoA quantum dot is like a prism made of electrons; the sizes can be adjusted so that the color emitted is different and their properties of semiconducting and so on are drastically different. “The discovery here is for actually purifying quantum effects to actually become materials you can touch.”
- fuzzfactor 3y agoWait until they figure out what some of this stuff is really good for!
- cobrabyte 3y agoForgive my ignorance, but is it common for there to be a 30-year delay in awarding Nobel Prizes after discoveries are made by scientists?
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- Laremere 3y agoAs a sample because I can't answer your question more broadly: Peter Higgs proposed the Higgs boson nearly 50 years before winning the Nobel Prize. Just the theory without confirmation wasn't enough. Then when the LHC detected it, he (along with an LHC scientist) won the Prize basically immediately. Quantum dots have an increasing relevance to display technology, so it feels reasonable to look back and reward a discovery which was more important than it seemed at the time.
- jjtheblunt 3y agothe delay seems to vary, perhaps by when the discovery becomes widely applied? Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier had a much shorter delay, for example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Doudna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Doudna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuelle_Charpentier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuelle_Charpentier
- GuB-42 3y agoAn important consideration is that Nobel prizes are for "great benefits to humankind", it usually means practical discoveries, and never theoretical work. The world becoming more and more complex, the time span between the theoretical framework and the first experiments to the realization of something genuinely useful tends to become longer and longer. There are some fields where, with the time to become an expert plus the time for the discovery to become Nobel-worthy, it may become difficult to get a Nobel in a lifetime (so, at all).
- aqme28 3y agoTheoretical work is still awarded, but only after experimental confirmation. Penrose for example
- supergirl 3y ago> quantum dots are semiconductor particles a few nanometres in size, having optical and electronic properties that differ from those of larger particles as a result of quantum mechanical effects (wikipedia) why chemistry and not physics? how do they draw the line?