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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Three Scientists Won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry For Their Work on Tiny Quantum Dots [Watch (HLS stream): Three Scientists Won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry For Their Work on Tiny Quantum Dots](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/f1PDlFjA.m3u8) (2:29)  _Published 2023-10-04. The laureates of this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry have been officially announced, hours after their names were leaked in what appeared to be an inadvertently sent email. The winners, for achievements in the field of nanotechnology, are Moungi G. Bawendi from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Louis E. Brus from Columbia University and Alexei I. Ekimov formerly from research company Nanocrystals Technology Inc._ --- Oct 4, 2023 4:57 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [TIME Person of the Year 2023 | Taylor Swift](/video/ZNHPu9Wg/) ### TIME Person of the Year 2023 | Taylor Swift [Nobel Prize in Physics Goes To U.S., Canadian and French Scientists for Laser Breakthrough](/video/FcxnCja8/) ### Nobel Prize in Physics Goes To U.S., Canadian and French Scientists for Laser Breakthrough [TIME Magazine's Person of the Year: The Choice](/video/g2AkZwa8/) ### TIME Magazine's Person of the Year: The Choice --- ## Transcript The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences have decided to award. The 2023 Nobel Prize in chemistry in equal shares to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT USA. Lewis Bruce Columbia University, USA, and Alexey yakimovich Nana crystals Technology, Incorporated USA. Put a discovery and synthesis of quantum dots. That was awakened this morning early by a phone call from the Swedish Academy. And with a very, very honored to have the surprise this morning and it's been chaos since then. Surprise, to me, I didn't hear about the beach and University field where a lot of people have made a lot of very important inventions and discoveries and Turn on one of many. Sorry, it's surprising in this way as well. That I was one of the chosen. So it's a very, very small particles of semiconductors that have properties that are unique to their size, and most people who have come across, then we'll have come across them true. At their television screens where they're being used to create the riding the green colors in many, many displaced today. What one of the applications that that we worked on was to? In an understanding that you to use it. As a means of Illuminating blood flow and tumors, for instance, that has reached out and touched many other parts of Science. 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