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Re: When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home

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Post by dekhn »

McKayDavis wrote: post #31
dekhn wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Basically, the announcement is a secret until it happens. It happens at a specific time, in Sweden, and they attempt to contact the winners at that time with a personal call ( https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/themes/the-nobel-call/ ). My cynical side suggests it's done mostly to generate PR. See also: https://worldneurologyonline.com/article/receiving-the-call-... https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/04/scien…

> Basically, the announcement is a secret until it happens. I too had thought that this was the case, but it appears the press does get at least some advance notice. Last Wednesday Jennifer Doudna found that she had won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry in a phone call from a reporter. Ref: paragraph 7 of [1]: > At a press briefing today, Doudna noted she was asleep and missed the initial calls from Sweden, only waki…

Sounds like Doudna had her phone muted during the night. Apparently some phones do that.

Re: When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home

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Post by vilhelm_s »

McKayDavis wrote: post #31
dekhn wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Basically, the announcement is a secret until it happens. It happens at a specific time, in Sweden, and they attempt to contact the winners at that time with a personal call ( https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/themes/the-nobel-call/ ). My cynical side suggests it's done mostly to generate PR. See also: https://worldneurologyonline.com/article/receiving-the-call-... https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/04/scien…

> Basically, the announcement is a secret until it happens. I too had thought that this was the case, but it appears the press does get at least some advance notice. Last Wednesday Jennifer Doudna found that she had won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry in a phone call from a reporter. Ref: paragraph 7 of [1]: > At a press briefing today, Doudna noted she was asleep and missed the initial calls from Sweden, only waki…

The announcement is given at a press conference, so the reporters learn it at that time. The link above says that they try to call the winners a few minutes before it is announced at the press conference, but like your quote says, Doudna missed that call because she was sleeping.

Re: When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home

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Post by compsciphd »

peterburkimsher wrote: post #27

The thread says: The #NobelPrize committee couldn't reach Paul Milgrom to share the news that he won, so his fellow winner and neighbor Robert Wilson knocked on his door in the middle of the night. When Robert Wilson rang Paul Milgrom's doorbell at 2:15 this morning, Milgrom's wife, who's in Stockholm, received a security-camera notification on her phone. She got to watch live as Wilson told Milgrom he'd won the #Nob…

also my second favorite comment was along the lines of: "apparently, the nobel now has a prize patrol".

Re: When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home

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Post by teh_klev »

peterburkimsher wrote: post #27

The thread says: The #NobelPrize committee couldn't reach Paul Milgrom to share the news that he won, so his fellow winner and neighbor Robert Wilson knocked on his door in the middle of the night. When Robert Wilson rang Paul Milgrom's doorbell at 2:15 this morning, Milgrom's wife, who's in Stockholm, received a security-camera notification on her phone. She got to watch live as Wilson told Milgrom he'd won the #Nob…

I don't know why you're being downvoted, but I found this funny, just like the submission. There's sometimes an awful lot of po-faced folks on HN, even when the post is funny and heartwarming.

Re: When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home

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Post by [deleted] »

dheera wrote: post #19
dekhn wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Basically, the announcement is a secret until it happens. It happens at a specific time, in Sweden, and they attempt to contact the winners at that time with a personal call ( https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/themes/the-nobel-call/ ). My cynical side suggests it's done mostly to generate PR. See also: https://worldneurologyonline.com/article/receiving-the-call-... https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/04/scien…

I put my phone in airplane mode at night. Don't a lot of people do that? What are they thinking?

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Re: When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home

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Post by cxr »

Animats wrote: post #45

Berkeley gives you a parking space if you work there and win a Nobel. They even have signs "Reserved for Nobel Laureate". As far as I know, Stanford does not. Doesn't Google had the leaders in auction theory now? Would someone please devise a way to run a stock market as a repeated clocked auction, so that prices change, say, once every 5 minutes and high frequency trading doesn't work.

> Berkeley gives you a parking space if you work there and win a Nobel.

The rich get richer. I remember filling out school and early job applications. I was struck by how my list of awards and recognitions was kind of a sham—most of them were each a consequence of some earlier achievement, and so on. It felt like getting a check and being able to cash it more than once.

Re: When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home

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Post by dylan604 »

irrational wrote: post #36
toomuchtodo wrote: post #21

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Don’t iPhones put themselves into do not disturb mode at night? I hope the Nobel folks call twice in 3 minutes!

I think that only works for Favorites. Do you have the Nobel committee in your favorites? ;-)

you say this as if you don't

Re: When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home

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Post by Jtsummers »

irrational wrote: post #36
toomuchtodo wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don’t iPhones put themselves into do not disturb mode at night? I hope the Nobel folks call twice in 3 minutes!

I think that only works for Favorites. Do you have the Nobel committee in your favorites? ;-)

You can have favorites go through on the first call, and repeat calls go through on the second call.
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