Join us for a Department of Physics colloquium entitled “From Curiosity to Breakthrough: Unlocking the nano world of colloidal quantum dots ” with Professor Moungi Bawendi, Massachusetts Institution of Technology (MIT) and winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize for chemistry. Please note – The lecture will run from 16:00-17:00 , followed by refreshments from 17:00-18:00 in the Level 8 Common Room of the Blackett Building. Biography Professor Bawendi is a French-born American chemist who was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize for chemistry for his work in producing quantum dots, very small particles whose unusual quantum properties depend on their size. Bawendi earned a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from Harvard University and a PhD from the University of Chicago. As a postdoctoral fellow at Bell Laboratories, he conducted research in materials synthesis that advanced methods of producing high-quality nanoparticles and quantum dots — minute crystals made of semiconductors. Subsequently, he accepted a position at MIT, where he became Lester Wolfe Professor of Chemistry. Professor Bawedni shared his 2023 Nobel Prize with Louis E. Brus and Aleksey Yekimov. He had revolutionized the chemical production of quantum dots in 1993, which resulted in almost perfect particles. Quantum dots now illuminate computer monitors and television screens and are used by biochemists and doctors to map biological tissue.

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