Your phone rings, and it's a number from Sweden. Do you answer? A Nobel Prize winner didn't

Mary E. Brunkow smiles after hearing about winning a Nobel Prize in medicine for part of her work on peripheral immune tolerance, in Seattle, on Oct 6, 2025. — AP

BERLIN: For some Nobel Prize winners this year, the news came with a knock at the door before dawn. For others, it was a long-awaited phone call honouring a discovery made decades ago.

One of the medicine prize winners, meanwhile, was on vacation in Yellowstone National Park without cellular service. It would be hours before he found out.