Nobel Committee managed to contact the laureate who “lives the best life” in the hike

The scientist spent three weeks in the mountains with his wife

Photo: Fred Ramsdell

The Nobel Committee eventually managed to contact scientist Fred Ramsdell, who got Physiology and Medicine Prize. Before with a man could not contact and report About the award because it had a digital detox in the US mountains.

In the end, the researcher learned about the assignment of Nobel after his wife Laura O’Nill saw dozens of greetings with greetings, writes The Guardian.

According to the Secretary General of the Committee Thomas Perlmann, the couple was hike in tents – a couple crossed the mountain ranges of Aydaho, Weiming and Montana in three weeks. When returning to the hotel, the scientist and his wife stopped to repair something in the car. Then Laura decided to turn on the phone and learned about the awarding of her husband.

“They were in the wild, where many bears were gnaw, so he was scared when she shouted. Fortunate– said Perlmann.

For The New York Times Fred Ramsdell told: “Of course did not expect to get the Nobel Prize. I never fell to me to think”.

We will remind, on October 6, Fred Ramsdell, Mary E. Brunkov and Shimon Sakaguchi divided the Nobel Prize for “Fundamental discoveries related to peripheral immune tolerance.”

“Their discoveries were crucial for our understanding of how the immune system functions and why not we all get sick with serious autoimmune diseases”, – said the chairman of the Nobel Committee Olle Kempe.