What it’s like to wait for the call from the Nobel Prize committee

Some 20 years ago, Mary-Claire King was asked to hold a seminar at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. 

The invite, the geneticist soon learned, was code for: You are being considered for a Nobel Prize. She traveled to Sweden, held the seminar, then spoke about her work with interested experts who she later understood to be the prize committee. 

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