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Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid (www.theguardian.com)

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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

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 months ago

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.