Prize announcement
Announcement of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics by Professor Göran K. Hansson, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on 3 October 2017.
Interview about the awarded work
“We hope gravitational waves teach us something about the dark universe”. Immediately following the announcement, Professor Olga Botner, Member of the Nobel Committee for Physics, was interviewed by freelance journalist Joanna Rose regarding the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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