Sunday 8th February 2026
Difficulty: Very easy
Hard to find Nobel winners (#1,178)
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1. Why did the Nobel committee have difficulty in contacting Fred Ramsdell, to tell him that he had won the 2025 prize for medicine?
2. Which Nobel prize winner was described as "impolite and arrogant" by a member of the Nobel committee, in view of his refusal to respond to news of the award?
3. Paul Milgrom and Bob Wilson shared the 2020 Nobel Prize for Economics, but Milgrom couldn't be contacted. How did Wilson manage to give him the news?
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