The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 to three US-based scientists for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots. According to the academy they “planted an important seed for nanotechnology” by “producing particles so small that their properties are determined by quantum phenomena”.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 has been awarded to three academic pioneers of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry: previous winner K. Barry Sharpless of Scripps Research; Morten Meldal of the University of Copenhagen: and Carolyn R. Bertozzi of Stanford University. “Sometimes simple answers are the best,” said the committee awarding the prize. “Click chemistry and bioorthogonal reactions have taken chemistry into the era of functionalism” and “this is bringing the greatest benefit to humankind.”