You might recall that earlier this year, Donald Trump was in the running for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Yes, that Donald Trump.

Thankfully, sanity prevailed and The Nobel Peace Prize 2020 was awarded to the World Food Programme (WFP) “for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict”.

Also notable, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier from the Max Planck Institute for their discovery of CRISPR-Cas9, a genome editing technology that allows scientists to deftly edit DNA from virtually any living thing with precision and ease never before possible.

They are the first-ever female team to take home the award.

Doudna was woken up at 3AM by her phone which had been ringing incessantly. She eventually picked it up to find a reporter on the line who asked for her reaction to the just-awarded prize. She asked him, “who won?”

This seems to be a trend. Enter your work in for consideration and then refuse to answer your phone on the night that the prizes are announced.

Paul Milgrom, an economist, was also unreachable.

In fact, per The Telegraph, Milgrom was so unreachable that his neighbour and co-winner Bob Wilson had to pop round to tell him that they had just been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics for improving the way that auctions work.

A doorbell cam captured the whole thing:

And the prize for most underwhelming reaction goes to…

[source:telegraph]