Unreachable Nobel winner hiking 'off the grid' | International

SAN FRANCISCO, United States, Oct 7, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - One of this year's Nobel winners is a leading medical researcher who also offers a shining example of work-life balance -- so much so that he might not know he won. Fred Ramsdell was among those honored Monday with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine, but he's currently "living his best life" on an "off the grid" hiking foray, a spokesperson from his San Francisco-based lab, Sonoma Biotherapeutics, told AFP. Ramsdell shared the prestigious prize with Mary Brunkow of Seattle, Washington and Shimon Sakaguchi of Osaka University in Japan for their discoveries related to the functioning of the immune system. But the laureate's digital detox means the Nobel committee has been...