He revealed that he had first heard about his prize when an Italian newspaper telephoned him in his laboratory to ask for his reaction at 7.30am on Monday morning, but dismissed their information as speculation.
An hour later he received a call from the Swedish Academy telling him he had won the prize, but admitted he was initially suspicious that the call was a hoax by a friend or colleague speaking in a Swedish accent.
Sir John professed to be unaware of the cash prize that awaits, but said he would most likely invest it in a fund he has previously set up to support PhD students during their fourth year of study.
He added that he would be back in the lab where at his customary early hour this morning. "It isn’t going to be particularly productive to clear off to some exotic place and I don’t have a yacht,” he explained.
Sir John's award could be followed by another British success if Prof Peter Higgs is given the Nobel Prize for physics after the discovery of a particle matching his 50-year-old theory by Cern this year.
But despite the public clamour for Prof Higgs to win the award after the huge public interest in his work, the fact the Cern results have not yet been verified by independent researchers may prove a stumbling block.
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