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On October 11, 1973, Konrad Lorenz was lying in bed with a persistent flu when the telephone rang in the villa in Altenberg near Vienna. So his wife answered the morning call. It was a Swedish journalist who asked for an interview with her husband. Citing his state of health, she strictly refused. Shortly followingwards, a neighbor called and excitedly reported what he had just heard on the radio: Konrad Lorenz had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine. A little later an express telegram arrived from Stockholm, in which the Altenberg postmistress turned the Nobel Prize into a “Nopel Prize”.
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