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Louis E. Brus

Date of Birth 1943
Place of Birth Cleveland
(United States of America, Ohio, Cuyahoga County, Area code 216)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Louis Brus
Louis E. Brus is the S. L. Mitchell Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University. He is the discoverer of the colloidal semi-conductor nanocrystals known as quantum dots. Brus received the Franklin Institute's 2012 Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science, and was chosen for the 2010 NAS Award in Chemical Sciences. He received the inaugural Kavli Prize for nanoscience in 2008, and was co-recipient of the 2006 R. W. Wood prize of the Optical Society of America. He received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Association of Rice University Alumni in 2010. He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2004 and is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

Awards by Louis E. Brus

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2010


NAS Award in Chemical Sciences
(For his leading role in the development of a fundamental building block for nanoscience, colloidial semiconductor nanocrystals, and for his contributions to our understanding of the quantum effects that control their optical properties.)

2008


Kavli Prize in Nanoscience
(for their respective discoveries of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals, also known as quantum dots, and carbon nanotubes.)