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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MLA style: Prize announcement. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2020. Sat. 30 May 2020. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2000/prize-announcement/>

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Nobel Prizes 2019

Fifteen laureates were awarded in 2019, for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind.

Their work and discoveries range from how cells adapt to changes in levels of oxygen to our ability to fight global poverty.

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2019 Nobel Laureates

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