▲ Taek-Hwan Hyun, Chair Professor, Seoul National University, Head of Nanoparticle Research Center, IBS


Our Time Today (7th), the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the first Korean scientist to be nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, was the first Korean scientist to be named SNU Chairman Hyun Taekhwan. 



The late former President Kim Dae-jung was the first Korean to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000, but there are still no Korean winners in the science field. 



Taek-Hwan Hyun, Chair Professor at Seoul National University, is the world's leading authority in the field of nano science, called the'father of QLED TV'.

Currently, Professor Hyun is also the head of the Nanoparticle Research Center at the Institute of Basic Science (IBS). 



'Clarivate Analytics', an information analysis service company that predicts the winners of each field of the Nobel Prize every year, selected the current professor as a prominent candidate for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year. 



Professor Hyun, along with Professor Mounji Barwendi of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Christopher Murray, University of Pennsylvania, has been recognized and candidate for his contribution to the synthesis of nanocrystals that can be used in a wide range of applications including physics, biology, and medical systems. I put my name on.



Clarivate selects researchers with the top 0.01% of thesis citations worldwide in the fields of physiology, physics, chemistry, and economics.

This year, 24 researchers from 6 countries were selected, including the current professor. 



Professor Hyun's research on QLED is evaluated as opening a way to mass-produce'quantum dots', a semiconductor that emits color, in a desired size. 



Professor Hyun was appointed as a professor at Seoul National University in 1997 after studying in the United States.

At that time, I went beyond what I had studied in the United States and jumped into nanoscience, which was a new and unknown area at the time. 



Then, in 2001, we developed a so-called'heating method' that uniformly mass-synthes nanoparticles by gradually raising the temperature at room temperature, and this was used not only in laboratories, but also in chemical factories and industries, and developed Samsung QLED (quantum light emitting diode) TV. Was the foundation of




With attention being paid to the birth of the first Korean Nobel Prize winner in Science, the Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry will be announced around 6:45 pm this evening. 



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