Prize announcement
Announcement of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry by Professor Göran K. Hansson, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on 4 October 2017.
Interview about the awarded work
“Now there’s an explosion in research”. Immediately after the announcement, Professor Peter Brzezinski, Member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, was interviewed by freelance journalist Joanna Rose regarding the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Nobel Prizes and laureates
Six prizes were awarded for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. The 12 laureates' work and discoveries range from proteins' structures and machine learning to fighting for a world free of nuclear weapons.
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