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Robert Wilson is an economist’s economist, even though he never set out to explicitly enter the field. He studied math, ... Awarded: The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of ...
Sixteen Nobel Prize-winning economists signed a joint letter Tuesday warning of what they see as economic ... Alvin Roth, William Sharpe, Robert Shiller, Christopher Sims and Robert Wilson. ...
Dr. Penzias (pronounced PEN-zee-as) shared one-half of the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics with Robert Woodrow Wilson for their discovery in 1964 of cosmic microwave background radiation, remnants ...
Robert W. Wilson, left, and Arno A. Penzias, Bell Laboratories employees who won the 1978 Nobel Prize in physics, in front of their microwave antenna in Holmdel, N.J., on Oct. 17, 1978.
Prizes with more generous cash stipends exist—the Breakthrough Prize, created by Mark Zuckenberg and other tech billionaires, pays $3 million, compared with Nobel’s sum of about $1 million ...