How Nobel Prize Winners Are Chosen: The Secret Process

How do you find out you’ve won the Nobel Prize? Nobel Prize winner Eric Cornell describes how he received a call with the good news at 4:00 in the morning! This is because he lives in Boulder, Colorado, and the Nobel Prize announcements are made at noon local time in Stockholm, Sweden. He didn’t know he was nominated for the prize because the selection process is a secret, but he had an idea of what the call would be when he picked it up because he knew it was Nobel Prize morning.

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[AlexTurpin]

You can tell he's good at explaining things in general

[Rickiye]

Phone rings at 4 am on Nobel night.

"Were calling to remind you about our extended warranty"

[framework-du]

My phone is off until I wake up at the normal time ... except for family.

[akshaykardak]

How articulate one can be ? This guy is the litmus test .

[Rokusuke]

they got the Nobel prize because they are making our life easier by solving complex problems, not because they want to get the nobel prize.

[noorussabahtauqeer]

Had a smile on my face the whole time that he was explaining. He knows how to tell a story!

[lilycloud]

That's incredible!! Maybe one day my name will be up there 😊 I plan to help our environment as much as humanly possible!

[shchepina]

What a great guy and what a incredible mind!

[mithunranjit]

It's really unfortunate that Bose was not awarded with Nobel.