Kindly pick up the phone, you just won the Nobel Prize

Mike Krumboltz

First the Nobel Prize organizers couldn't track down author Alice Munro to tell her she had won.

Then, on Friday morning, organizers experienced a similar problem with the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. The organization had just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, which is kind of a big deal.

The series of tweets, posted early Friday morning, are reminiscent of a parent trying to track down a wayward teen who gave them a bogus story about sleeping over at a friend's house.

But nobody was home.

Fortunately, the pleas worked.

Twitter users were quick to see the humor in the situation. Time magazine's Radhika Jones posted this:


The OPCW and Munro weren't the only two winners to get the news a little late. Physicist Peter Higgs, who also won but does not have a cellphone, explained in a press conference that he heard he'd won from a neighbor.

"She congratulated me on the news, and I said, 'Oh, what news?'"