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California scientist wins a Nobel Prize, then makes school lunches for his kids
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Karl Deisseroth spent hours fielding congratulatory calls after learning early Monday that he had won a Nobel Prize for medicine for helping to open a new field of brain science called optogenetics.
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- Reported by Phys.org and published Tue, 06 Oct 2026 06:20:09 UTC.
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