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Rice alum Louis Brus awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry
October 04, 2023
HOUSTON, Texas, Oct. 4 -- Rice University issued the following news release:

Rice University alumnus Louis Brus ('65) has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the "discovery and development of quantum dots," nanosized particles with unique properties "that now spread their light from television screens and LED lamps," according to a Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announcement today.

Brus, who started his undergraduate education at R . . .

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