STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish media say the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences may have announced the winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry prematurely.
Public broadcaster SVT said the academy sent a press release by mistake early Wednesday that contained the names of the winners.
The press release said the prize went to three U.S.-based scientists for the “discovery and synthesis of quantum dots,” according to SVT.
On Monday, Hungarian-American Katalin Karikó and American Drew Weissman won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discoveries that enabled the creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.
The chemistry prize means Nobel season has reached its halfway stage.
Persons:
Eva Nevelius, Heiner Linke, Anne L’Huillier, Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, Karikó, Drew Weissman, Carolyn R, Barry Sharpless, Morten Meldal
Organizations:
STOCKHOLM, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Public, SVT, Associated Press, Academy of Sciences, ” Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Swedish, Dagens Nyheter, COVID, Nobel Foundation
Locations:
Sweden, French, Swedish, Hungarian, Danish