Dr. Karl Deisseroth spent hours fielding congratulatory calls after learning that he had won a Nobel Prize for medicine for helping to open a new field of brain science called optogenetics. But it wasn’t long before the California scientist asked for a break from all the attention for a more ordinary task: He needed to make school lunches for his children. The kids were asleep early Monday in the family home in Stanford, where their father had been speaking in the middle of the night with journalists and well-wishers. Deisseroth, who is 54, shared this year’s medicine prize with two researchers in Germany.
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