Names of purported Nobel chemistry prize winners inadvertently launched

STOCKHOLM, Oct 4 (Reuters) – Sweden’s Royal Academy of Sciences appeared to have inadvertently printed names of three scientists it stated had received this 12 months’s Nobel Prize in chemistry, though the award-giving institute stated the choice was nonetheless hours away.

Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet printed a replica of an e-mail its stated was from the academy naming the laureates as Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov.

“The Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2023 rewards the invention and improvement of quantum dots, nanoparticles which might be so small that their dimension determines their properties,” Dagens Nyheter (DN), one other Swedish each day, quoted an e-mail from the academy as saying.

However Johan Aqvist, chair of the academy’s Nobel committee for chemistry, instructed Reuters: “It’s a mistake by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Our assembly begins at 0930 CET (0730 GMT) so no resolution has been made but. The winners haven’t been chosen.”

The announcement of this 12 months’s Nobel prize for chemistry is due at 1145 CET (0945 GMT).

Nanoparticles and quantum dots are utilized in LED-lights and TV-screens and may also be used to information surgeons whereas eradicating most cancers tissue, amongst different issues, in line with the assertion.

Bawendi is a professor on the Massachusetts Institute of Know-how, Brus is professor emeritus at Columbia College and Ekimov works for Nanocrystals Know-how Inc.

Brus began his scientific profession on a US Navy scholarship the place he studied at Rice and Columbia College. In 1972 he was employed by AT&T Bell Labs the place he spent 23 years, devoting a lot of the time to learning nanocrystals.

Bawendi was born in Paris and grew up in France, Tunisia, and the U.S. Bawendi did his postdoctoral analysis at Bell Laboratories beneath Brus. Bawendi joined MIT in 1990 and have become professor in 1996.

Ekimov was born within the Soviet Union and studied on the Ioffe Bodily-Technical Institute. He later labored for the Vavilov State Optical Institute earlier than transferring to the U.S. In 1999, Ekimov was named chief scientist at Nanocrystals Know-how Inc.

The greater than century-old prize is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and is price 11 million Swedish crowns ($990,019).

($1 = 11.1109 Swedish crowns)

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