‘More women are being nominated’: Nobel academy head discusses diversity

Ahead of this year’s award announcements, Göran Hansson speaks about measures to address the imbalance in gender and ethnicity among winners.
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Next week, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will award the first Nobel prizes in chemistry and physics after making tweaks to its nomination procedure to diversify the pool of potential winners.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-02988-5

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  • Correction 04 October 2019: An earlier version of this article misspelled Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede's name.

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