The Nobel Prizes are arguably the world’s most prestigious recognition anyone can receive for their work in the sciences, medicine, literature, or for world peace. For most winners, getting the call to tell them they won marks the high point of their lives. Note that I said most .

Not all are so joyful. Some just don’t seem that bothered. Others seem downright irritated.

In fact, one of this year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine , Fred Ramsdell, conveniently decided to go “ off the grid ” and spend his time “living his best life” somewhere in the mountains of Idaho—right in time for the prizes to be announced. (He eventually found out 12 hours after he won—and on hearing the news, his first reaction was to dismiss the idea outright. At least he didn’t feel actively enrag

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