MIT professor Moungi Bawendi speaks after winning the 2023 Nobel chemistry prize for helping develop "quantum dots" -- nanoparticles that are now found in next generation TV screens and help illuminate tumors within the body.
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00:00 I'm deeply honored and surprised and shocked
00:04 by the announcement this morning.
00:06 And I'm especially honored to share this with you, Bruce,
00:10 who was my postdoctoral mentor
00:12 and with whom I learned so much from.
00:16 I tried to emulate his scholarship
00:19 and his mentoring style as a professor myself.
00:23 None of us who started the field
00:25 could have predicted 30 years later
00:27 which would be where we are today.
00:30 And it's just amazing to me
00:35 if you have really great people working
00:39 on a brand new field with brand new materials,
00:42 innovation comes out in directions that you can't predict.
00:45 So I would be very,
00:47 I would be at a loss to tell you in 10 years
00:54 where this is gonna go
00:56 because I'm waiting for that surprise myself.
00:58 And I'm sure I'll be surprised
01:00 and I'm sure something interesting is gonna come out.