He had received an early morning phone call from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, he said.
Earlier this week, a member of the Swedish Academy resigned over a seemingly unrelated matter.
The prize announcement was made by the permanent secretary of the Swedish academy, Horace Engdahl, in Stockholm.
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is worried that oil supplies are peaking, shortly to dwindle, and that high oil prices could cause global economic recession.
Faced with such front-page stuff, the Swedish Academy of Sciences, responsible for awarding the physics and chemistry prizes, threw in the towel as far as publicity was concerned.
It is given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which since 1901 has been awarding Nobel Prizes for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and for peace.
"These models are now used by scientists in order to develop new antibiotics, directly assisting the saving of lives and decreasing humanity's suffering, " said the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which awards the prize.
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Two U.S. scientists have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering a primary way the billions of cells in the body sense their environment, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced today (Oct. 10).
These included Mr. Walter Staveloz, Director of the International Relations Association of Science-Technology Centres in Washington DC, and Mr Owen Gaffney, Director of communications, International Geosphere Biosphere Programme, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden.
For those who wanted to try their hand at gate-crashing, Dagens Nyheter, one of the country's daily newspapers, helpfully provided its readers with a mask of Horace Engdahl, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy the organisation which awards the literature prize.
The technique itself is 90 years old, and even the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences is not that backward-looking.
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And perhaps the Karolinska could spare a thought for Leroy Hood, who invented the sequencing technique that made the whole thing possible though that work might, more properly, fall within the purview of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, which decides the winners of the chemistry (and also the physics) prizes.
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Pompey's academy head to Scandinavia in late July where they will play Danish sides Brondby and Odense BK and Swedish outfit Halmstad.
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