Louis Brus

Louis Eugene Brus (born August 10, 1943 in Cleveland , Ohio ) is a professor of physics and chemistry at Columbia University .

Brus is the discoverer of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals, known as quantum dots .

Brus received his BA in chemical physics (magna cum laude) from Rice University in 1965 and his Ph. D. from Richard Bersohn in chemical physics at Columbia University in 1969. From 1969 to 1973 he did research at the United States Naval Research Laboratory , then to 1996 at Bell Laboratories . Since 1996 he has been a professor at Columbia University.

He received the Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics from the American Physical Society in 2001 , the Chemistry of Materials Prize from the American Chemical Society in 2005, the RW Wood Prize in 2006 and, together with Sumio Iijima, the first to receive the Kavli Prize in Nanosciences in 2008. 2010 awarded him the NAS Award in Chemical Sciences , 2012 the Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science and 2013 the Welch Award in Chemistry . He has been a member of the American Physical Society since 1980, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1998, and the National Academy of Sciences since 2004 .

literature

• Tinsley Davis: Biography of Louis E. Brus . In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . Volume 102, No. 5, 2005, pp. 1277-1279
• Yang Liu: Professor Louis Brus (PDF; 14.9 MB). In: Columbia Science Review . Volume 3, No. 2, 2006, pp. 10-11
• Who's Who in America. 66th Edition, Volume 1: A – L. Marquis Who's Who, Berkeley Heights 2011, ISBN 978-0-8379-7031-8 (Volume 1), ISBN 978-0-8379-7035-6 (Complete Works ), ISSN  0083-9396 , p. 569

Web links

• Brus Homepage (English)
• Columbia Professors to Receive Kavli Prizes in Norway Ceremony (Kavli Prize to Brus and Jessell)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Louis E. Brus at academictree.org, accessed on January 22, 2018.