Son of the great Tunisian mathematician Mohammed Salah Baouendi, Moungi G. Bawendi received this prestigious Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2023 on Wednesday, October 4, 2023 with two other researchers.
The Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2023 has been awarded to three researchers based in the United States: Moungi Bawendi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Louis Brusy, professor emeritus at the University of Columbia, and Alexei Ekimov who works for the company Nanocrystals Technology, for their discoveries on quantum points, microcrystals of 2 nanometers of diameter. 0.000002 mm, reports AFP.
The three researchers work in the United States. Of Franco-Tunisian origin, Moungi Bawendi was born in Paris in 1961, then moved with his family in the United States. Chemist, he is the first researcher of Tunisian origin to teach at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
