My phone was on 'DND' when Nobel Committee was calling to tell me I had won: Ardem Patapoutian

Ardem Patapoutian has been awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for his groundbreaking discovery of pressure-sensitive sensors in cells that respond to mechanical stimulation.

Ardem Patapoutian has revealed it was his 92-year-old father who first informed him that he had won the Nobel Prize. The Nobel laureate made the statement in an interview with TheNobelPrize.org. "This was kind of the big elephant in the room." For 2021 medicine laureate Ardem Patapoutian, figuring out how our sense of touch works was an unsolved mystery.Listen to our interview with our new #NobelPrize laureate now! pic.twitter.com/HionvwPMnG

Asked what was his response when he first received the call from Thomas Perlmann, Secretary-General of the Nobel Committee, Ardem Patapoutian said: "I had do not disturb on my phone actually, so, I didn't get his [Perlmann's] phone calls and somehow, he found my father who is 92-years-old and lives in Los Angeles and he [father] called me and so I heard it first from him which is very special."