MIT professor speaks after winning Nobel chemistry prize

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MIT professor Moungi Bawendi speaks after winning the 2023 Nobel chemistry prize for helping develop "quantum dots" -- nanoparticles that are now found in next generation TV screens and help illuminate tumors within the body.

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00:00 I'm deeply honored and surprised and shocked

00:04 by the announcement this morning.

00:06 And I'm especially honored to share this with you, Bruce,

00:10 who was my postdoctoral mentor

00:12 and with whom I learned so much from.

00:16 I tried to emulate his scholarship

00:19 and his mentoring style as a professor myself.

00:23 None of us who started the field

00:25 could have predicted 30 years later

00:27 which would be where we are today.

00:30 And it's just amazing to me

00:35 if you have really great people working

00:39 on a brand new field with brand new materials,

00:42 innovation comes out in directions that you can't predict.

00:45 So I would be very,

00:47 I would be at a loss to tell you in 10 years

00:54 where this is gonna go

00:56 because I'm waiting for that surprise myself.

00:58 And I'm sure I'll be surprised

01:00 and I'm sure something interesting is gonna come out.

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