Here’s how a Portland-raised scientist learned she won a Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prizes are considered among the world’s most prestigious honors for achievements in medicine, physics, chemistry, ...

Your phone rings, and it’s a number from Sweden. Do you answer? A Nobel Prize winner didn’t

Two winners in Japan, seven hours ahead of Stockholm, were awake and working when the call came from a Swedish number. One thought it was a telemarketer. Wednesday’s chemistry prize was the first time ...

A knock at the door. A call from a strange number. Here's how the Nobel Prize winners heard ...

BERLIN (AP) — For some Nobel Prize winners this year, the news came with a knock at the door before dawn. For others, it was a long-awaited phone call honoring a discovery made decades ago. One of the ...