'I asked them to, if they have a chance, call me back,' says Nobel Prize committee secretary general of the committee. Photograph: Jonathan Nackstrand/ AFP via Getty Images
Efforts by the Nobel Prize committee to contact one of this year’s medicine laureates have so far proved unsuccessful, after the researcher was reported to be on an off-the-grid hiking trip in the American wilderness.
Fred Ramsdell, who shared Monday’s Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with Mary Brunkow of Seattle and Shimon Sakaguchi of Osaka University, has yet to receive the news of his award for discoveries that shed light on the workings of the human immune system.
According to colleagues, Mr Ramsdell’s
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