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Louis E. Brus

American chemist

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born: 1943
died: 2026
age at death: 82
known for: chemist, physicist, university teacher

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Louis Eugene Brus was an American chemist, and the Samuel Latham Mitchell Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University. He was the co-discoverer of the colloidal semi-conductor nanocrystals known as quantum dots. In 2023, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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