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Louis Brus
Brus in 2008
Born (1943-08-10) 10 August 1943 (age 81)
Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
EducationRice University (BS)
Columbia University (PhD)
Known forquantum dots
AwardsIrving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics (2001)
National Academy of Sciences (2004)
R. W. Wood Prize (2006)
Kavli Prize (2008)
Willard Gibbs Award (2009)
NAS Award in Chemical Sciences (2010)
Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science (2012)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2023)
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
Chemical physics
Nanotechnology
InstitutionsColumbia University
ThesisLifetime Shortening of Na(32p) and T(72S) Quenched by Halogens (1969)
Doctoral advisorRichard Bersohn

Louis Eugene Brus[1] (born 10 August 1943)[2] is the S. L. Mitchell Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University. He is the co-discoverer of the colloidal semi-conductor nanocrystals known as quantum dots.[3] In 2023, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Early life and education

Louis Eugene Brus was born in 1943 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. During high school in Roeland Park, Kansas, he developed an interest for chemistry and physics.[4]

He entered Rice University in 1961 with a Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) college scholarship which required him to participate in NROTC activities at sea as a midshipman. He graduated in 1965 and moved to Columbia University for his PhD.[4] For his dissertation, he worked on the photodissociation of sodium iodide vapor, under the supervision of Richard Bersohn.[4]

Upon obtaining his PhD in 1969, Brus returned to the Navy as a lieutenant and served as a scientific staff officer in collaboration with Lin Ming-chang, at the United States Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C.[4]

Under the recommendation of Bersohn, Brus left the Navy permanently and joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1973, where he did the work that led to the discovery of quantum dots.[4] In 1996, Brus left Bell Labs and joined the faculty in the Department of Chemistry at Columbia University.[4]

Awards and honors

He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998,[5] a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2004,[6] and is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[7]

He received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Association of Rice University Alumni in 2010. He was co-recipient of the 2006 R. W. Wood Prize of the Optical Society of America "for the discovery of nanocrystal quantum dots and pioneering studies of their electronic and optical properties" shared with Alexander Efros and Alexey Ekimov.[8][9] He also received the inaugural Kavli Prize for nanoscience along with Sumio Iijima in 2008 for "for their large impact in the development of the nanoscience field of the zero and one dimensional nanostructures in physics, chemistry and biology".[10] In 2009 he was awarded the Willard Gibbs Award "for his leading role in the creation of chemical quantum dots".[11] Brus was chosen for the 2010 NAS Award in Chemical Sciences. In 2012 he received the Franklin Institute's Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science,[12] and was selected as a Clarivate Citation laureate in Chemistry "for discovery of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals (quantum dots)".[13]

In 2023, Brus was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Ekimov and Moungi Bawendi "for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots".[14] Bawendi had worked as a postdoc with Brus, when they were in Bell Labs.[15]

References

  1. ^ "Louis Eugene Brus". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 13 September 2023. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
  2. ^ Profile of Louis Eugene Brus
  3. ^ Brus, Louis E. (1984). "Electron–electron and electron‐hole interactions in small semiconductor crystallites: The size dependence of the lowest excited electronic state". The Journal of Chemical Physics. 80 (4403): 4403–4409. Bibcode:1984JChPh..80.4403B. doi:10.1063/1.447218. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
  4. ^ a b c d e f Davis, Tinsley (February 2005). "Biography of Louis E. Brus". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102 (5): 1277–1279. doi:10.1073/pnas.0409555102. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 547879. PMID 15677326.
  5. ^ "Curl Elected AAAS Fellow". Rice University. 28 May 1998. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
  6. ^ "Louis E. Brus". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
  7. ^ "Gruppe 4: Kjemi" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Archived from the original on 3 March 2012. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
  8. ^ "R. W. Wood Prize". 2006. Retrieved 25 June 2010.
  9. ^ "Twenty attain 2006 top honors from the OSA". Laser Focus World. 30 August 2006. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
  10. ^ "Columbia Professors to Receive Kavli Prizes in Norway Ceremony". 2008. Retrieved 25 June 2010.
  11. ^ "Gibbs Award Ceremony 2009". Chicago ACS Archive. Chicago Section of the American Chemical Society. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
  12. ^ "Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science". Franklin Institute. 2012. Archived from the original on 17 December 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
  13. ^ "Thomson Reuters Predicts 2012 Nobel Laureates". www.prnewswire.com (Press release). Thomson Reuters. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
  14. ^ Devlin, Hannah; correspondent, Hannah Devlin Science (4 October 2023). "Scientists share Nobel prize in chemistry for quantum dots discovery". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 4 October 2023. {{cite news}}: |last2= has generic name (help)
  15. ^ "Names of purported Nobel chemistry prize winners inadvertently released". Reuters. 4 October 2023. Retrieved 4 October 2023.


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