Scientist learns he has won Nobel prize while on digital detox in US mountains

Fred Ramsdell's wife switched on her phone and screamed - it was full of messages congratulating her husband

Out on a digital detox in the western US backcountry, scientist Fred Ramsdell was startled when his wife let out a yell. He feared she had spotted a grizzly bear, only to discover a far better surprise - he had won the Nobel prize in medicine.

The Nobel committee had been unable to reach the immunologist, whose phone was on airplane mode as he was on a hiking and camping trip, but finally got through to the couple early on Tuesday morning, Swedish time.