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<\/div>\nThe press release was not on the Academy’s web page.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Swedish media outlets on Wednesday published what they reported were the seemingly leaked names of this year’s Nobel chemistry prize recipients, hours before the laureates were to be announced.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nobel leaks are rare, with the various prize-awarding academies going to great lengths to keep the winners’ names under wraps until the announcements.<\/p>\n
Sweden’s paper of reference, Dagens Nyheter, and public broadcasters Swedish Television and Swedish Radio reported receiving a press release from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences that named three US-based chemists.<\/p>\n
“We can’t comment on this until we know what has happened, we have to look into it,” the Academy’s press spokeswoman Eva Nevelius told AFP.<\/p>\n
According to the Swedish reports, the laureates are Moungi Bawendi from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Louis Brus from Columbia University and Alexei Ekimov who works at Nanocrystals Technology.<\/p>\n
They had won the prize “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots”, according to the reports.<\/p>\n
The press release was not on the Academy’s web page.<\/p>\n
The Academy was due to make its announcement at 11:45 am (0945 GMT), minutes after holding a meeting and a vote to pick the winner.<\/p>\n
Heiner Linke, an expert on the Academy’s Nobel Chemistry Committee, expressed surprise to Dagens Nyheter.<\/p>\n
“Right now I’m just trying to understand what has happened. We haven’t made a decision yet, so if a press release has gone out then it’s definitely a mistake,” Linke said.<\/p>\n
The list of nominations for each prize is also kept secret for 50 years.<\/p>\n
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