Prize announcement

Announcement of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry by Professor Hans Ellegren, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on 4 October 2023.

Interview about the awarded work

“Quantum dots can be seen as one milestone for the whole field of nanotechnology”

Immediately after the announcement, Professor Heiner Linke, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, was interviewed by journalist Sharon Jåma regarding the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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