INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russian-born physicist Alexei Ekimov on Wednesdaywon the Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside French-born Moungi Bawendi and American
scientist Louis Brus for their research on tiny particles known as quantum dots.The trio succeeded in producing these tiny fluorescent
semiconductors that "now spread their light from televisions and LED lamps, and can also guide surgeons when they remove tumor tissue, among
many other things," the jury said.In 1981, Ekimovdiscovered quantum dots at St
size-dependent quantum effects in particles floating freely in a fluid." Bawendi then changed the chemical production of quantum dots into
in 1945, is a former chief scientist at the New York-based Nanocrystals Technology Inc.The trio will share the $1 million award, receiving
it from King Carl XVI Gustaf at a ceremony in Stockholm on Dec
year, after the medicine prize and the physics prizes were announced earlier this week.AFP contributed reporting.
