Two weeks ago, the Nobel General Assembly and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences began announcing the 2023 Nobel Prize winners. Award recipients in physics, chemistry, and economic sciences include researchers who received support from the National Science Foundation during their careers.
“We congratulate all of this year’s Nobel Prize winners. The achievements of these inspiring people will have lasting benefits for humanity, thereby ensuring their names are rightfully added to the annals of history. ,” said NSF Director Seshraman Panchanathan. “Since our founding in 1950, NSF has advanced the full spectrum of science and engineering and STEM education, seeding the broader discovery ecosystem through significant investments in curiosity-driven translational research. These 262 Nobel Prize winners are demonstrating impact.” , we will continue to invest in the research and people who work hard to push the frontiers of knowledge and drive real progress towards a better society. , a safer and healthier world. ”
Below are this year’s award recipients, a summary of their accomplishments, and a description of their NSF-supported research.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Moungi G. Bawendi, Lewis E. Bruce, Columbia University; Alexei I. Ekimov, Nanocrystals Technology Inc.
“For the discovery and synthesis of quantum dot technology.”
In the 1930s, physicists began theorizing the properties of synthetic materials whose dimensions were small enough to exhibit quantum properties. Thanks to the joint discoveries and ingenious experiments of Bawendi, Bruce, and Ekimov in the 1980s and his 1990s, scientists now have a chemical method to reliably produce high-quality semiconductor quantum dots. I did. Currently, quantum dots (several nanometers in diameter) are manufactured into products that are part of our daily lives, such as televisions, computers, and smartphones, and researchers hope that in the future, these semiconductor nanometers will Crystals are used for flexible electronics, small sensors and quantum computers. NSF is proud to have supported Blass and Bawendi’s research and early career development, including winning the latter the President’s Young Investigator Award in 1991.
Nobel Prize in Physics 2023
Pierre Agostini, Ohio State University. Ferenc Krausch, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching and Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Anne Lhuillier, Lund University.
“For an experimental method of generating attosecond light pulses to study electrodynamics in matter.”
Since the late 1980s, researchers have been conducting experiments aimed at tracking the ultrafast motion of electrons (43 miles per second) and understanding the dynamic behavior of these elementary particles. Through independent work and collaboration, Agostini, Krauss, and Lurie developed a breakthrough technology that uses short pulses of light called “attosecond pulses” to capture the rapid movement of electrons in real time. NSF is proud to have supported Agostini’s exploratory research and particle motion experiments for 20 years. The joint discoveries of these laureates have opened new doors to the world of electronics, helping to better understand the fundamental laws of physics, and paving the way for the creation of new technologies.
2023 Nobel Prize in Economics
Claudia Goldin, Harvard University.
“For advancing our understanding of women’s labor market outcomes.”
To better understand the wage and labor disparities over the past century and the barriers that need to be addressed to overcome these systemic problems, consider the underlying factors driving women’s workforce representation and earnings. It’s important to understand. In the early 1980s, Claudia Goldin took a comprehensive approach to explaining these differences. She believes that economic, legal, technological and medical innovations – structural changes in women’s access to contraceptives, and evolving social norms regarding women’s education and household and family responsibilities – are the driving forces behind increasing women’s representation. I concluded that it is. Labor force. The central finding is that differences in wages and labor force participation rates are not due to biology but to the division of unpaid caregiving responsibilities between heterosexual couples. NSF is proud to have supported Goldin’s research career for more than 40 years. Her groundbreaking research has led to surprising insights into the historical and contemporary role of women in the labor market, and how and why employment rates and wages differ for women and men—more equitably and efficiently. This helped me gain a deeper understanding of the knowledge that is important for building an inclusive society.
Learn more about NSF’s Nobel Prize connections and read about past NSF-supported recipients at nsf.gov.
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