Hearing you've won a Nobel is incredible for most people. For some, it just spoils their sleep
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At five o'clock in the morning, the esteemed 86-year-old astrophysicist Jim Peebles was woken suddenly by the telephone ringing.
"In previous experience, the only phone calls at that time of night are bad news," he said. This one was great news.
"The opening sentence from the caller was: 'The Nobel committee has voted to award you the Nobel Prize in Physics. Do you accept?'" Peebles recalled. The wording threw him. Who wouldn't accept a Nobel Prize?
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