Nobel Committee unable to contact laureate because he is ‘living his best life’ away from civilization

The Nobel Committee has been unable to contact Nobel Prize laureate in medicine Fred Ramsdell because he’s currently “living his best life” on an “off the grid” hiking foray, Jeffrey Bluestone, co-founder of Sonoma Biotherapeutics and a friend of the scientist, told AFP.

Ramsdell shared the prestigious prize with Mary Brunkow of Seattle, Washington and Shimon Sakaguchi of Osaka University in Japan for their discoveries related to the functioning of the immune system.

But the laureate’s digital detox means the Nobel committee has been unable to reach him and break the news.

“I have been trying to get a hold of him myself. I think he may be backpacking in the backcountry in Idaho,” Bluestone told AFP.