# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/louis-e-brus
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:32:39.270Z

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name: "Louis E. Brus"
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description: "Louis Eugene Brus was an American chemist, and the Samuel Latham Mitchell Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University. He was the co-discoverer of the colloidal semi-conductor nanocrystals known as quantum dots. In 2023, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry."
tagline: "American chemist (1943–2026)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Louis_E_Brus.jpg?width=1200"
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country:
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birthDate: "1943-08-10"
deathDate: "2026-01-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump