Moungi Gabriel Bawendi is an American chemist. He is currently the Lester Wolfe Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Bawendi is known for his advances in the chemical production of high-quality quantum dots. For this work, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2023. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023, announced October 4, 2023. Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus, and Aleksey Yekimov , “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots”. Moungi Bawendi: born 1961, Paris, France. Louis Brus: born 1943, Cleveland, OH, USA. Aleksey Yekimov : born 1945, Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia). Wiki link Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).