Moungi Bawendi
Moungi Bawendi | |
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منجي الباوندي | |
Bawendi in 2023 | |
| Born | 15 March 1961 |
| Education | Harvard University (BA, MA) University of Chicago (PhD) |
| Known for | hot-injection synthesis of quantum dots |
| Relatives | M. Salah Baouendi (father) |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2023) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Chemistry Quantum chemistry |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | From the Biggest to the Smallest Polyatomic Molecules: Statistical Mechanics and Quantum Mechanics in Action (1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | Karl Freed Takeshi Oka |
| Doctoral students | Christopher B. Murray Cherie Kagan |
Moungi Bawendi (Arabic: منجي الباوندي; born 15 March 1961) is an American–Tunisian–French 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.