Dr. Fred Ramsdell, a US scientist, learned he had won the Nobel Prize for Medicine while on a hiking trip in Montana. His wife, Laura O'Neill, received hundreds of text messages announcing the award, initially making Dr. Ramsdell skeptical. The couple had to find a town with cell service to confirm the news, a process complicated by time differences. Dr. Ramsdell's win is for research into the immune system's fight against infections.

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