Prize announcement
Announcement of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000 by Professor Erling Norrby, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and comments about the prize by Professor Bengt Nordén, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, on October 11, 2000.
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