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

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

  • half_fiction@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    75·
    2 months ago

    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?

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      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".