In the serenity of a small Wyoming mountain town, Sonoma Biotherapeutics immunologist Dr. Fred Ramsdell was suddenly startled by his wife shouting as he walked their two dogs nearby. The two were on a three-week backpacking through the Rocky Mountains; naturally, his immediate assumption was that she crossed paths with a grizzly bear.

Having finally reached cell service access, her phone flooded with dozens of messages. She was yelling to him that he’d won a Nobel Prize. The skeptic scientist retorted: “I did not” Yet his wife had 200 texts that told another story.

While the Nobel Committee was attempting to reach Ramsdell, the carefree immunologist was touching grass, fully immersed in the pair’s preplanned off-grid trip with zero regard for the prize announcements — phone on airplane m

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