/oss/taxonomy/term/7154/all en /oss/article/medical-technology-general-science/nobel-prize-chemistry-no-small-matter <p>The word “quantum” derives from the Latin word for “amount,” so that if something is “quantifiable,” it means that it can be measured. Although I think I have a reasonably good grasp of chemistry, I’ll admit that my knowledge of “quantum chemistry” is quantifiably very small. But it is enough to allow me to appreciate the magnitude of this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry, awarded to Drs. Moungi Bawendi of MIT, Louis Brus of Columbia University and Alexei Ekimov of Nanocrystals Technology Inc.</p> Thu, 05 Oct 2023 23:11:11 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 9680 at /oss