Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable
Love that for him
The Nobel committee also hit a roadblock trying to reach Brunkow – both researchers are based on the US West Coast, which is nine hours behind Stockholm – but eventually got ahold of her…
In 2020 the Nobel committee had similar difficulties in contacting the winners of the prize for economics. When Bob Wilson’s phone rang in Stanford in the middle of the night, he unplugged it so the committee had to call his wife instead.
When the committee couldn’t reach his fellow winner, Paul Milgrom, either, Wilson had to go and wake him up.
This is annoying to me. Is there seriously no better way than to call older people in the middle of the night and then act surprised when they are not immediately available?
“Its how we’ve always done it.”
I read “uncontactable” as “uncontrollable” at first and I like my version much better.
Something about a Nobel prize winning immunologist uncontrollably roaming the wilds of Idaho really tickles my funny bone 😁
Giga Chad move