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- Born
- ( 1943-08-10 ) August 10, 1943, Cleveland, Ohio , U.S.
- Died
- January 11, 2026 (2026-01-11) (aged 82), Hastings-on-Hudson, New York , U.S.
- Education
- Rice University ( BS ), Columbia University ( PhD )
- Known for
- Quantum dots , Brus equation
- Awards
- Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics (2001) National Academy of Sciences (2004) R. W. Wood Prize (2006) Kavli Prize (2008) Willard Gibbs Award (2009) NAS Award in Chemical Sciences (2010) Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science (2012) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2023)
- Fields
- Chemistry , Chemical physics , Nanotechnology
- Institutions
- US Naval Research Laboratory Bell Telephone Laboratory Columbia University
- Thesis
- Lifetime Shortening of Na(3 ) and T(7 ) Quenched by Halogens (1969)
- Doctoral advisor
- Richard Bersohn
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Brus Group
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- Official website
- www.columbia.edu/cu/chemistry/fac-bios/brus/group/index.html
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- date of birth
- 1943-08-10
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- Louis Eugene Brus
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- 2026-01-11
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Louis Eugene Brus (August 10, 1943 – January 11, 2026) 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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