“This is very unfortunate, and we regret very much that that this happened. “We don’t know what happened,” the academy’s secretary-general, Hans Ellengren, told The Associated Press.
They published the information, however, since the academy didn’t write it off as false, merely insisting that the final decision on a winner had not yet been taken. Many were suspicious of the email at first. The Associated Press did not receive the press release in advance and decided not to publish the names until confirmed by the academy, but many Swedish media organizations did.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said it was investigating.Ībout four hours before the official announcement was planned Wednesday, several Swedish media received a press release from the academy revealing that U.S.-based scientists Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov had won the 2023 chemistry prize for their work on quantum dots. STOCKHOLM (AP) - The most prestigious and secretive prize in science ran headfirst into the digital era Wednesday when Swedish media got an emailed press release revealing the winners of the Nobel Prize in chemistry and the news prematurely went public.
