Moungi G. Bawendi
Born: 1961, Paris, France
Affiliation at the time of the award: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA
Prize motivation: “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots”
Prize share: 1/3
Louis E. Brus
Born: 1943, Cleveland, OH, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Prize motivation: “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots”
Prize share: 1/3
Aleksey Yekimov
Born: 1945, Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia)
Affiliation at the time of the award: Nanocrystals Technology Inc., New York, NY, USA
Prize motivation: “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots”
Prize share: 1/3
Katalin Karikó
Born: 17 January 1955, Szolnok, Hungary
Affiliation at the time of the award: Szeged University, Szeged, Hungary; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Prize motivation: “for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19”
Prize share: 1/2
Drew Weissman
Born: 7 September 1959, Lexington, MA, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: Penn Institute for RNA Innovations, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Prize motivation: “for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19”
Prize share: 1/2