Prize announcement
Announcement of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics by Professor Hans Ellegren, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on 4 October 2022.
Interview about the awarded work
“This work has made clear what quantum mechanics really means”
Immediately after the announcement, Professor Thors Hans Hansson, member of the Nobel Committee for Physics, was interviewed by freelance journalist Sharon Jåma regarding the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Coming up
This year’s Nobel Prize announcements will take place 2–9 October. All announcements will be streamed live here on nobelprize.org.
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