
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded jointly to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.
To read about the science behind the prize in more detail, check out the Nobel Prize press release here, the popular science background here, or the more detailed scientific background here.
Note: The diagrams in the middle of the graphic originally showed the particle sizes the wrong way around. This has now been corrected in the image and in the PDF download.