Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2023).
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Alexey Ekimov
Alexey Ekimov or Aleksey Yekimov 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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science · Russian physicist (born 1945) · physicist · also Alexey Ekimov, Alexei Ekimov, Alexei I. Ekimov, Alexei Ivanovich Ekimov, Alexei Ivanovich Yekimov, Alexei Yekimov
Born 28 February 1945 · Q1547368
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2023· 2 entries
Was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this discovery
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded R. W. Wood Prize (2006).
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1981· 2 entries
While working at the Vavilov State Optical Institute
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Ekimov, along with Alexei A
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1976· 1 entry
Awarded USSR State Prize (1976).
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1967· 2 entries
Studied at Faculty of Physics, State University of Saint Petersbourg (1967).
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Graduated from the Faculty of Physics, Leningrad State University
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1945· 1 entry
Born 1945-02-28.
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