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Moungi Bawendi
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Born (1961-03-15) 15 March 1961 (age 63)
Paris, France
EducationHarvard University (BA)
University of Chicago (MS, PhD)
RelativesM. Salah Baouendi (father)
AwardsNobel Prize in Chemistry (2023)
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
Quantum chemistry
InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology
ThesisFrom the Biggest to the Smallest Polyatomic Molecules: Statistical Mechanics and Quantum Mechanics in Action (1988)
Doctoral advisorTakeshi Oka

Moungi Gabriel Bawendi (Arabic: منجي الباوندي; born 15 March 1961)[1][2] is an American-French-Tunisian chemist.[3][4] He is currently the Lester Wolfe Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[5][6] Bawendi is known for his advances in the chemical production of high-quality quantum dots.[7] In 2023 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Biography

Moungi Bawendi was born in Paris, France, the son of Tunisian mathematician Mohammed Salah Baouendi. After periods living in France and Tunisia, Bawendi and his family emigrated to the United States when he was a child.[8] They lived in West Lafayette, Indiana, as Salah worked in the math department at Purdue University.[8] Bawendi graduated from West Lafayette Junior-Senior High School in 1978.[9]

Bawendi is a leading figure in research and development of colloidal quantum dots,[7] and among the most cited chemists of the decade from 2000-2010.[10] He received his A.B. in 1982 from Harvard University[11] and his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1988 from the University of Chicago supervised by Takeshi Oka, working on hot-bands of H3+, which played a role in deciphering the emission spectrum of Jupiter observed in 1989.[12]

Bawendi carried his postdoctoral research in Bell Labs under Louis E. Brus. Bawendi joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1990 and became professor in 1996.[13]

Awards and honors

During the American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting on March 23, 2010, Bawendi received the ACS Award in Colloid and Surface Chemistry.[14]

Bawendi became a Clarivate Citation Laureate in Chemistry in 2020, jointly with Christopher B. Murray and Hyeon Taeghwan, "for synthesis of nanocrystals with precise attributes for a wide range of applications in physical, biological, and medical systems."[15]

In 2023, Bawendi was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Louis E. Brus and Alexey Ekimov "for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots".[3]

Bawendi, along with Brus and Ekimov were leaked as the recipients of the 2023 Nobel Prize shortly before an official announcement was due to be made.[16] The chair of the Swedish Academy's Nobel committee for Chemistry said that it was due to a " ... mistake by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ... no decision has been made yet. The winners have not been selected".[16] As of 11:52 AM Stockholm time, the winners have been confirmed to be the same as the prematurely announced recipients.

References

  1. ^ Tiss, Mohsen (October 4, 2023). "Le Tunisien Moungi G. Bawendi parmi les lauréats du prix Nobel de chimie". Tunisie.
  2. ^ "Le Tunisien Moungi Bawendi parmi le trois Prix Nobel de chimie 2023". October 4, 2023.
  3. ^ a b Devlin, Hannah; correspondent, Hannah Devlin Science (2023-10-04). "Scientists share Nobel prize in chemistry for quantum dots discovery". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-10-04.
  4. ^ "An overview of the main Tunisian scientists in Chemistry and Materials Science" (PDF). Retrieved October 5, 2020.
  5. ^ "Moungi Bawendi". mit.edu. Archived from the original on August 21, 2018. Retrieved May 1, 2017.
  6. ^ "Moungi Bawendi". mit.edu. Retrieved May 1, 2017.
  7. ^ a b "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2023-10-04.
  8. ^ a b Baklouti, Ali; El Kacimi, Aziz; Kallel, Sadok; Mir, Nordine (2015). Analysis and Geometry: MIMS-GGTM, Tunis, Tunisia, 2014. In Honour of Mohammed Salah Baouendi. Heidelberg: Springer. ISBN 9783319174426. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
  9. ^ "Distinguished West Lafayette Alumni to Return for Wall of Pride Celebration". West Lafayette Schools Education Foundation. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
  10. ^ "Most cited chemists". Thomson Reuters. Retrieved July 28, 2017.
  11. ^ "Prof. Bawendi Recalls Life as a Student, Gives Advice to Frosh".
  12. ^ Oka, Takeshi (2013-10-03). "My 45 Years of Astrochemistry: Memoirs of Takeshi Oka". The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 117 (39): 9308–9313. doi:10.1021/jp4035826. ISSN 1089-5639.
  13. ^ "Names of purported Nobel chemistry prize winners inadvertently released". Reuters. 2023-10-04. Retrieved 2023-10-04.
  14. ^ "Dresselhaus and Bawendi Honored by ACS" (PDF). MIT The Spectograph. 26. 2010.
  15. ^ Plc, Clarivate. "Clarivate Reveals 2020 Citation Laureates - Annual List of Researchers of Nobel Class". www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved 2023-10-04.
  16. ^ a b Devlin, Hannah (4 October 2023). "Names of Nobel prize in chemistry winners apparently leaked before announcement". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 October 2023. {{cite news}}: |archive-date= requires |archive-url= (help)
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