Prize announcement

Announcement of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry by Professor Hans Ellegren, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on 4 October 2022.

Interview about the awarded work

“Methods to connect molecules in essentially the same way you build legos”

Immediately after the announcement, Professor Olof Ramström, member of the Nobel Committee for chemistry, was interviewed by freelance journalist Sharon Jåma regarding the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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