In the interview of Martin Charlie, 2008 Nobel Chemistry Prize winner, he said that if you were lucky enough to achieve something, people would do something scary to you…
After that, people would say, "Oh, you might earn a Nobel Prize". Then from the first week of October, you would start losing sleep to the point that even a phone call from your neighbor might spook you.
Until the day you actually received a call from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
The main reason for this was to ensure that the winners would not show off in advance and undermined the expectations of researchers.
The call to notify the winners would come a few minutes before the announcement of the winners. Due to this, the Nobel Prize phone call was one of the most exciting phone calls one could get. It felt like bungee jumping.
Lu Zhou, who received this call, felt that bungee-jump-like-feeling.
