Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded To 3 Scientists for Exploring the Nanoworld (nytimes.com) 10
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded on Wednesday to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov for being pioneers of the nanoworld. The new laureates discovered and developed quantum dots, semiconductors made of particles squeezed so small that their electrons barely have room to breathe. From a report: "For a long time, nobody thought you could ever actually make such small particles," Johan Aqvist, the chair of the Academy's Nobel committee for chemistry, said at the news conference announcing the 2023 laureates. Presenting the topic with five colorful flasks lined up in front of him, which he said contained quantum dots in a liquid solution, he said: "But this year's laureates succeeded."
I Prefer The Nanuworld. (Score:2, Offtopic)
Shazbot anyone?
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https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2023/press-release/ [nobelprize.org]
USA! (Score:1)
Interesting - all three are based in the US. The other science Nobels also had US winners. I thought the European educational system was supposed to be pretty good?
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Everything is bought and paid? No?
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All the three Physics laureates of this year are European. Ferenc Krausz is Czech/Austrian, Pierre Agostini is French, Anne L'Huillier is French/Swedish. Both the French spent career time in the highly prestigious physics center CEA Saclay (Paris), one of them 33 years there before accepting a position in the US. This is why he appeared with an US affiliation.
The institution who train most Nobel prizes per capita is the École Normale supérieure (Paris, France), 1.35 Nobel laureate per 1000 students. Caltech is #2 at 0.67, Harvard #3 at 0.32. Cambridge University (UK, 0.25) is #5 École Polytechnique (Paris, France, 0.25) is #6. The rest of top 10 are US. https://www.nature.com/article... [nature.com]
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Well, it's not quite a sweep for US education, as one of the three chemistry laureates was educated in Russia.
Both physics laureates were educated and work in Europe; one of the two Medicine laureates was educated in Europe. So overall Europe's education system is well represented. US dominance in Nobels is also partly fueled by immigration; while native born and educated Americans are overrepresented among laureates given we're about 4% of the world's population, US attractiveness to immigrants boosts us even higher.
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Interesting - all three are based in the US. The other science Nobels also had US winners. I thought the European educational system was supposed to be pretty good?
All of laurates in Chemistry are currently working in the US. That does not necessarily mean they were in the US when they did their work nor where they were educated. While Moungi G. Bawendi and Louis E. Brus did their work at Bell Labs, Alexei I. Ekimov was educated in the former USSR and I believe that is where he did his Nobel winning work.
For the prize in Medicine, Katalin Karikó was received her undergraduate and PhD in Hungary with postdoctoral work in the US with her key work at the University of Pennsylvania. Drew Weissman received his PhD from Boston University. He met collaborated with Karikó when he was at the University of Pennsylvania
In Physics, Anne L’Huillier received her PhD from CEA in France. She did her work at CEA Paris-Saclay and is now a professor at Lund University in Sweden. Pierre Agostini received his PhD 1968 from Aix-Marseille University, France and is currently professor at Ohio State University. His work was done at CEA Paris-Saclay. Ferenc Krausz received his PhD. received his PhD from Technical University of Vienna where he did his Nobel work. He is currently working at the Max Planck Institute in Germany.
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The Nobel isn't awarded for education but for research, so research budgets are the most relevant thing to compare.