Prize announcement

Announcement of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics by Professor Göran K. Hansson, Permanent Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on 6 October 2015.

Interview

Immediately following the announcement, Professor Olga Botner, Member of the Nobel Committee for Physics, was interviewed by freelance journalist Joanna Rose regarding the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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