[URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-24493400[/URL]
[QUOTE][B]Nobel Prize-winning scientist Prof Peter Higgs has revealed he did not know he had won the award until a woman congratulated him in the street.[/B]
Prof Higgs, who does not own a mobile phone, said a former neighbour had pulled up in her car as he was returning from lunch in Edinburgh.
He added: "She congratulated me on the news and I said 'oh, what news?'"
The woman had been alerted by her daughter in London that Prof Higgs had won the award, he revealed.
He added: "I heard more about it obviously when I got home and started reading the messages."
The 84-year-old emeritus professor at the University of Edinburgh was recognised by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for his work on the theory of the particle which shares his name, the Higgs boson.
He shares this year's physics prize with Francois Englert of Belgium, and joins the ranks of past Nobel winners including Marie Curie and Albert Einstein.
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Damn, you would think someone would make an effort to tell him he won, not wait for him to figure it out himself :v:
[QUOTE=valkery;42526992][URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-24493400[/URL]
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this guy seems to be a good example of the "absent minded professor" stereotype lol.
[QUOTE=Mr._N;42527265]this guy seems to be a good example of the "absent minded professor" stereotype lol.[/QUOTE]
wait a minute...
I'm getting deja vu from this thread...
did i get sucked through a time vortex or something
[QUOTE=FreakySoup;42527487]did i get sucked through a time vortex or something[/QUOTE]
what are you blabbering about?
ice cream? god I love ice cream!
Wait where what
[img]http://s16.postimg.org/em4tbx1dx/8vj5.jpg[/img]
In all seriousness he's a pretty cool grandpa.
In a few years, this will be a TIL on reddit
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