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Re:When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home by ugh123 on Monday October 12, 2020 @07:43PM (#24760784)
I think also due to their preference on making personal contact: the news will hit the PR landscape in short time afterwards and no soon-to-be-Nobel-laureate wants to find out in some news article
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Re:When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home by KMag on Monday October 12, 2020 @10:45PM (#24761736)
> no soon-to-be-Nobel-laureate wants to find out in some news article

I understand saying that's a problem, but realistically, that's a problem very few people would be unhappy to have. Yes, it could be horribly inconvenient to stumble through a bunch of congratulatory communications before you could confirm you've actually won, but compared to wining a Nobel, it's a trifle.

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Re:When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home by fireattack on Monday October 12, 2020 @11:08PM (#24761874)
Exactly same argument can be made for being woken up by a call at 2AM.
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Re:When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home by KMag on Monday October 12, 2020 @11:29PM (#24761980)
Yea, in the unlikely case I were to be considered for a Nobel prize, I think I'd be ambivalent between being woken up and being inundated with congratulations and requests for comment without being able to confirm.
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