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Fred Ramsdell won the Nobel Prize this week for his work in immunology.

Ramsdell missed the call and the announcement while on an off-the-grid trip in the mountains.

Ramsdell had received hundreds of congratulatory messages by the time he turned his phone back on.

Prior to announcing winners to the world, the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, calls each person individually to deliver the good news.

This year, however, the organization was not able to reach all of the medicine prize winners prior to Monday’s announcement.

One of them, Fred Ramsdell, an immunologist at Sonoma Biotherapeutics in San Francisco, did not find out the news until Tuesday.

He was on a three-week camping trip through Montana, Idaho and Wyoming enjoying a “ digital de

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