Kids flip out over dad's Nobel Prize | The Moment

CBC - Oct 8, 2026

Scientist and physician Dr. Karl Deisseroth tells The National about the moment his kids lost it with excitement when he told them he had won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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