🎊 Amazing news! Columbia Professor Emeritus Louis Brus was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry! The award, which is shared with two other scientists, recognizes Brus’s work on quantum dots, which are tiny color-emitting particles. The dots have a wide range of practical applications—they’re already in use in household items like television screens and LED lamps, and the dots are part of life-saving nanotechnology that guides surgeons during procedures. Brus is a veteran of the USNavy and received his PhD from Columbia in 1969. After years in government and private industry, he returned to the University as a professor in 1996. Since then, he’s become a fixture on campus, and is widely known for his generous support of Columbia Community Service (ColumbiaNeighbors). Congratulations on your incredible accomplishment, Professor Brus! #NobelPrize2023 #NobelPrize #ColumbiaUniversity