US scientist Gary Ruvkun, who on Monday won the Nobel Prize in Medicine with fellow American Victor Ambros for their discovery of microRNA, said winning the honor was like "an earthquake".
"It's a big deal. It's a big one. It's an earthquake," the 72-year-old professor at Harvard Medical School told Swedish public radio SR just after the announcement was made in Stockholm.
He was woken by a call from the Nobel prize committee in the early hours of Monday in the United States.
"The dog is confused by why it's dark outside and we are running around the house," laughed Ruvkun.
He said he looked forward to attending the Nobel gala in Stockholm on December 10, when the laureates receive their prizes from Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf.
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