Nationality American Role Professor Name Louis Brus | Doctoral advisor Richard Bersohn Institutions Columbia University | |
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Alma mater Rice University
Columbia University Known for Quantum Dots
Nanotechnology
Nanocrystals
Nanotubes Notable awards Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics (2001)
National Academy of Sciences (2004)
ACS Award in the Chemistry of Materials (2005)
R. W. Wood Prize (2006)
Kavli Prize (2008)
NAS Award in Chemical Sciences (2010)
Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science (2012) Education Columbia University, Rice University Awards Kavli Prize in Nanoscience, NAS Award in Chemical Sciences Nominations RUSNANOPRIZE for Optics and Nanoelectronics Fields Chemistry, Chemical physics Similar People Moungi Bawendi, Paul Alivisatos, Alexander Efros, Sumio Iijima | ||
Residence United States of America | ||
2013 welch award dr louis e brus
Louis E. Brus is the S. L. Mitchell Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University. He is the discoverer of the colloidal semi-conductor nanocrystals known as quantum dots.
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Brus received the Franklin Institute's 2012 Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science, and was chosen for the 2010 NAS Award in Chemical Sciences. He received the inaugural Kavli Prize for nanoscience in 2008, and was co-recipient of the 2006 R. W. Wood prize of the Optical Society of America. He received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Association of Rice University Alumni in 2010.
He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2004 and is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
Career
In 1973, Brus joined AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he did the work that led to the discovery of quantum dots. In 1996, Brus left Bell Labs and joined the faculty in the Department of Chemistry at Columbia University.