Alexey Ekimov
Russian physicist
- Born
- 28 February 1945, Saint Petersburg
- Age
- 81
Alexey Ekimov or Aleksey Yekimov (born 1945) is a Russian solid state physicist and a pioneer in nanomaterials research. He discovered the semiconductor nanocrystals known as quantum dots in 1981, while working at the Vavilov State Optical Institute. In 2023, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this discovery.
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