Alexey Ekimov

Alexey Ivanovich Ekimov (; born 1945) is a Russian physicist. He is known for his works in nanomaterials research. He discovered the semiconductor nanocrystals known as quantum dots in 1981. In 2023, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this discovery.

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