Portal:Current events/2017 October 4
October 4, 2017 (Wednesday)
Politics and elections
- Operation Anubis
- The Spanish government sends Logistic Support armed forces into Catalonia to support riot police in Barcelona. (The Sun)
Science and technology
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- The Nobel Prize committee awards Swiss Jacques Dubochet, German Joachim Frank, and British Richard Henderson the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structural determination of biomolecules in a solution. (The Guardian) (Nobel Prize.org)