YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK – The mountains were calling, and he missed an even bigger call—he won the Nobel Prize!
Dr. Fred Ramsdell was living the dream, deep in the mountains near Yellowstone National Park. He was so remote that he was one of the last to know he’d won!
Dr. Ramsdell had been on a three-week vacation through the Rocky Mountains with his wife and his dog. His phone was on airplane mode, and he didn’t get the notice that he had been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize for medicine for his work on the immune system.
“I spend as much time as I can up in the mountains,” he said. “We tend to go into the remote areas,” he told the New York Times, adding that he and his wife are always on the lookout for wildlife like bison, moose, and eagles. He learned of the prize at a campsite when his wife got cell service again and saw hundreds of texts about her husband winning the prize. She shouted the news but he thought she had seen a grizzly bear.
Dr. Ramsdell’s research has improved care for ailments like arthritis, multiple sclerosis and Crohn’s disease.
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