A knock at the door. A call from a strange number. Here's how the Nobel Prize winners heard they won

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Ross Colquhoun wakes up his wife Mary E. Brunkow to talk about her winning a Nobel Prize in medicine for part of her work on peripheral immune tolerance, in Seattle, Monday, Oct. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

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 honoring 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.

The Nobel Prizes are considered among the world’s most prestigious honors for achievements in medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, economics and peace. The w