Prize announcement

Announcement of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics by Professor Hans Ellegren, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on 3 October 2023.

Interview about the awarded work

“This breakthrough opens the world of electrons”

Immediately after the announcement, Professor Mats Larsson, Member of the Nobel Committee for Physics, was interviewed by journalist Sharon Jåma regarding the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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