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Moungi Bawendi (Arabic: منجي الباوندي; born 15 March 1961) is an American–Tunisian–French chemist. He is currently the Lester Wolfe Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Bawendi is known for his advances in the chemical production of high-quality quantum dots.

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For this work, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2023.

Early life

Moungi Bawendi was born in Paris, France, the son of Tunisian mathematician Mohammed Salah Baouendi. After periods living in France and Tunisia, Bawendi and his family migrated to the United States when he was a child. They lived in West Lafayette, Indiana, as Salah worked in the math department at Purdue University.

Bawendi graduated from West Lafayette Junior-Senior High School in 1978.

Higher education and career

Bawendi received both an A.B. in 1982 and an A.M. in 1983 from Harvard University. He earned a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1988 from the University of Chicago, under the supervision of Kar Moungi G Bawendi | MIT Technology Licensing Office GIZE