Prize announcement

Announcement of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry by Professor Göran K. Hansson, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on 3 October 2018.

“What they have done is to really speed up evolution”

Immediately following the announcement, Sara Snogerup Linse, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, was interviewed by freelance journalist Joanna Rose regarding the 2018 Nobel Prize awarded achievements.

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