Louis E. Brus is the S. L. Mitchell Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University. He is the discoverer of the colloidal semi-conductor nanocrystals known as quantum dots. Brus received the Franklin Institute's 2012 Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science, and was chosen for the 2010 NAS Award in Chemical Sciences. He received the inaugural Kavli Prize for nanoscience in 2008, and was co-recipient of the 2006 R. W. Wood prize of the Optical Society of America. He received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Association of Rice University Alumni in 2010. He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2004 and is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. 

August 10th, 1943 in Cleveland (Age 81)