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
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.”
Also, there is no time limit here, does it really matter if they find out a few hours or days later?
Press just wants a quote like from John Polanyi, " I hope this doesn’t turn me into a blithering idiot".
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 😁
As someone who lives in Idaho, I can relate to this guy. It’s easy to wander the wilderness and not want to come back.
Not the first time this has happened. In 1956 they gave the Nobel in Medicine to Werner Forssman for discovery of angioplasty. The problem is Forssman did the first angioplasty on himself, and he got fired from the hospital for doing so. The Nobel committee had to track him down because his career in medicine had ended after being fired.
Giga Chad move