Prize announcement

Announcement of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics by Professor Göran K. Hansson, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on 6 October 2020.

Immediately after the announcement, Professor Ulf Danielsson, Member of the Nobel Committee, was interviewed by freelance journalist Joanna Rose regarding the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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