{"id":35645,"date":"2025-10-07T14:28:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T14:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=35645"},"modified":"2025-10-14T20:24:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T20:24:58","slug":"winning-a-nobel-prize-interrupted-his-off-the-grid-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=35645","title":{"rendered":"Winning a Nobel Prize Interrupted His Off-the-Grid Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fred Ramsdell found out about his Nobel Prize nearly 12 hours after it was announced because he was on vacation in the Rockies.<\/p>\n

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Fred Ramsdell was parked at a campground in Montana on Monday afternoon after camping and hiking across the Rocky Mountains when his wife, Laura O\u2019Neill, suddenly started shouting.<\/p>\n

He first thought that maybe she had seen a grizzly bear. Instead, Ms. O\u2019Neill had regained cellular service and had seen a flood of text messages with the same news. \u201cYou just won the Nobel Prize!\u201d she yelled.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I didn\u2019t,\u201d said Dr. Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode, he recalled in an interview. But she said, \u201cI have 200 text messages saying that you did!\u201d<\/p>\n

They had missed a 2 a.m. call from the Nobel committee that Dr. Ramsdell and two others had been awarded the 2025 prize for medicine<\/a> for their research into the immune system. They also missed congratulations from their friends and family. His lab, Sonoma Biotherapeutics, said he \u201cwas living his best life and was off the grid on a preplanned hiking trip.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dr. Ramsdell, 64, had not expected any important phone calls that morning and was offline, as he usually is while on vacation. His wife, on the other hand, preferred to be more communicative with her friends and family.<\/p>\n

\u201cI certainly didn\u2019t expect to win the Nobel Prize,\u201d he said from a hotel in Montana. \u201cIt never crossed my mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Fred Ramsdell found out about his Nobel Prize nearly 12 hours after it was announced because he was on vacation in the Rockies.Fred Ramsdell was parked at a campground in Montana on Monday afternoon after camping and hiking across the Rocky Mountains when his wife, Laura O\u2019Neill, suddenly started shouting.He first thought that maybe she had seen a grizzly bear. Instead, Ms. O\u2019Neill had regained cellular service and had seen a flood of text messages with the same news. \u201cYou just won the Nobel Prize!\u201d she yelled.\u201cNo, I didn\u2019t,\u201d said Dr. Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode, he recalled in an interview. But she said, \u201cI have 200 text messages saying that you did!\u201dThey had missed a 2 a.m. call from the Nobel committee that Dr. Ramsdell and two others had been awarded the 2025 prize for medicine for their research into the immune system. They also missed congratulations from their friends and family. His lab, Sonoma Biotherapeutics, said he \u201cwas living his best life and was off the grid on a preplanned hiking trip.\u201dDr. Ramsdell, 64, had not expected any important phone calls that morning and was offline, as he usually is while on vacation. His wife, on the other hand, preferred to be more communicative with her friends and family.\u201cI certainly didn\u2019t expect to win the Nobel Prize,\u201d he said from a hotel in Montana. \u201cIt never crossed my mind.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35647,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35648,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35645\/revisions\/35648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}