Prize announcement

Announcement of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry by Professor Göran K. Hansson, Permanent Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on 7 October 2015.

Interview

Immediately after the announcement, Professor Claes Gustafsson, Member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, was interviewed by freelance journalist Joanna Rose regarding the 2015 Chemistry Prize.

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MLA style: Prize announcement. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach 2025. Sun. 7 Dec 2025. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2015/prize-announcement/>

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