00:00 Nobel Prizes are awarded to those who in the previous year have conferred the greatest
00:05 benefit to humanity.
00:07 On Wednesday, Monge Bowendi, Louis E. Brass and Alexei Ekimov received the Nobel Prize
00:13 in Chemistry for their work on tiny quantum dots.
00:17 The technology is already used in medicine, but could one day contribute to flexible electronics
00:23 and thinner solar cells.
00:24 Today we see commercial applications, for example in TV screens, where quantum dots
00:30 are used to produce the RGB colors that make up every pixel.
00:36 We see them in illumination sources where the LED light, the blue LED light, gets converted
00:42 into a light that is perceived as pleasant by humans.
00:46 It's also used widely in biomedical imaging in this particular example to visualize the
00:51 vascular system of a tumor.
00:54 Unbeknownst to the scientists, their names were mistakenly published ahead of the official
00:58 announcement.
00:59 An awards ceremony will be held in Sweden in December.
01:02 [SWOOSH]
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