Alexey Ekimov
Also known as Alexei Ekimov, Alexei I. Ekimov, Alexei Ivanovich Ekimov, Alexei Ivanovich Yekimov, Alexei Yekimov, Aleksey Yekimov
Russian physicist
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5 total works indexed
- SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 24,106x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,039x
- Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3
· 2024 · cited 13,382x
- A method and server for predicting damaging missense mutations
· 2010 · cited 11,637x
- QUAST: quality assessment tool for genome assemblies
· 2013 · cited 10,155x
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- Born
- 1945 (age 80 – 81), Leningrad , Soviet Union
- Education
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Alexey Ekimov or Aleksey Yekimov (Russian: Алексей Екимов; born 1945) is a Russian solid state physicist and a pioneer in nanomaterials research. He discovered the semiconductor nanocrystals known as quantum dots in 1981, while working at the Vavilov State Optical Institute. In 2023, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this discovery.
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