Nobel Chemistry Laureate Leak 3 Hours Before Announcement... "Not Yet Selected" (Comprehensive)

News Leak 2 Hours 40 Minutes Before Announcement
"Laureates Recognized for Discovery and Synthesis Research of Quantum Dots"
Nobel Chemistry Committee Chair, "Laureates Not Yet Selected"

This year, three Nobel Chemistry Prize winners experienced an accidental leak of the official announcement about three hours before the scheduled release.

On the 4th, Reuters, citing the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter, reported that "the Nobel Committee of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced via email that 'the 2023 Nobel Chemistry Prize has been awarded for the discovery and synthesis research of quantum dots, particles whose size determines (optical and electrical) properties.'" The Nobel Prize is kept strictly confidential until the announcement, with even the list of nominees kept secret for 50 years, making the selection process highly secretive. Such a premature leak of the Nobel laureates' names is extremely rare.

The Nobel Chemistry Prize was scheduled to be announced at 6:45 PM Korean time on the same day, but the media reported that the information was leaked at 4:05 PM, 2 hours and 40 minutes earlier. The prematurely leaked list of laureates includes three individuals: Louis Brus, an American from Columbia University; Alexey Ekimov, a Russian-born scientist at Nanocrystal Technology in the U.S.; and Moungi Bawendi, a French-American at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Local Media: "Press Release Seems to Have Arrived Early by Mistake"... Nobel Chemistry Committee Chair: "Laureates Not Yet Selected"

The local daily Expressen reported that the problematic press release email arrived around 2:31 PM. Foreign media, citing Swedish SVT broadcasting, stated that "(the Nobel Committee) accidentally sent the press release containing the laureates' names early."

In response, Johan ?ckvist, Chair of the Nobel Chemistry Committee, said, "It was a mistake by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences," adding, "The (Nobel Prize decision) meeting started at 9:30 AM (Central European Time / 4:30 PM Korean time), and the laureates have not yet been selected." Eva Nebelius, spokesperson for the Royal Academy of Sciences, also said, "We cannot comment until we understand what happened," and added, "An investigation is currently underway."

Meanwhile, the research achievement mentioned as the basis for the Nobel Chemistry Prize, quantum dots, are semiconductor crystals about a nanometer (nm, one-billionth of a meter) in size. By controlling the size and shape of quantum dots, colors close to primary colors can be produced. This technology is applied in ultra-high-definition displays and can also assist in surgeries such as removing cancer cells.

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