The Latest: Lab orders $3,636 of Champagne for Nobel winner
STOCKHOLM — The Latest on the awarding of the Nobel Prizes (all times local):
5:55 p.m.
Cambridge University scientist Greg Winter says he was staring at his computer wondering how he would ever finish multiple projects when the phone rang.
He was “a bit rocky” early Wednesday after a feast the night before at Trinity College and was having coffee and aspirin when a caller from Sweden told him to expect a “very important announcement.” Winter says the line went dead and he thought it was the bank “ringing up and telling me I had some dodgy transaction.”