Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Three U.S. scientists who helped usher in practical use for nanotechnology that can now be seen in everything from television monitors to LED lamps won the Nobel Prize in chemistry from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Wednesday.
Moungi G. Bawendi of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Louis E. Brus of Columbia University; and Alexei I. Ekimov of Nanocrystals Technology in New York shared the award for their work in the discovery and development of quantum dots.