Prize announcement
Announcement of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000 by Professor Erling Norrby, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and comments about the prize by Professor Bengt Nordén, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, on October 11, 2000.
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Six prizes were awarded for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. The 12 laureates' work and discoveries range from proteins' structures and machine learning to fighting for a world free of nuclear weapons.
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