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                   Global Edition | 23 October 2023 
                 
           
                   
                    
                 
           
           
                  What’s it like to win a Nobel Prize? Louis Brus was recently told that he and two other scientists will share the 2023 prize in chemistry, “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots”. Now, in a remarkably candid interview and podcast with The Conversation, he talks about his work, spanning old cold war divides, and the sudden new level of recognition in his life. “When the mailman came I happened to be at the front door and he recognized me because my face was in the local newspaper. And he said, ‘I’ve never shaken the hand of a Nobel laureate before.’” Read and listen to the full interview.

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