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.

See a Video of the Interview

To cite this section
MLA style: Prize announcement. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach 2026. Thu. 8 Oct 2026. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2015/prize-announcement/>

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