Committee Unable to Contact Nobel Prize Winner Because He's Too Chill, Had Phone on Airplane Mode

"Having finally reached cell service access, her phone flooded with dozens of messages. She was yelling to him that he'd won a Nobel Prize. The skeptic scientist retorted: "I did not " Yet his wife had 200 texts that told another story. While the Nobel Committee was attempting to reach Ramsdell, the carefree immunologist was touching grass, fully immersed in the pair's preplanned off-grid trip with zero regard forthe prize announcements - phone on airplane mode, unbothered."

"The secretary-general of the Nobel Assembly, Dr. Thomas Perlmann, told the New York Times this was the most difficulty he's encountered contacting a winner in the nine years he's been at his post. Ramsdell and his two colleague s, Mary E. Brunkow and Shimon Sakaguchi, won the Prize in Medicine or Physiology for their work on how the body regulates immune responses."

Fred Ramsdell was hiking off-grid in the Rocky Mountains when his wife reached cell service and found dozens of messages announcing a Nobel Prize win. He initially dismissed the news despite some 200 texts while his phone remained on airplane mode. The Nobel Committee had difficulty reaching him, a situation described by secretary-general Thomas Perlmann as the most challenging he had faced in nine years. Ramsdell, Mary E. Brunkow, and Shimon Sakaguchi received the Prize in Medicine or Physiology for identifying an unknown group of T cells that regulate immune responses and enable advances in cancer, autoimmune disease treatments, and organ transplantation.

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