Prize announcement

Announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2000 by Professor Erling Norrby, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and comments about the prize by Professor Tord Claeson, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics, and Professor Stig Hagström, Member of the same committee, 11 October 2000.

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