The Nobel Prize
The most prestigious award given for contributions to the field of
economics is the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of
Alfred Nobel, commonly called the Nobel Prize in Economics. The first
such prize in economics was given in 1969, and one has been awarded to
each of 48 people. Not surprisingly, virtually all of the recipients of
this award have been authorized by our board of trustees to receive
Center fellowships. Eighteen of them have, in fact, been Fellows, and a
number of others have asked to be listed on future rosters. In
addition, several recipients of the Nobel Prize in Medicine &
Physiology, Chemistry, and Peace have been Center Fellows.
Most recipients of the economics award were made eligible for
a Center fellowship long before they received the prize, while they were
quite young and in the early stages of their careers. We believe this
record underscores the effectiveness of our selection procedures in
identifying highly promising talent well before the larger world of
scholarship acknowledges it in the form of major awards.
Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences awards:
- Kenneth Arrow, 1972 (Fellow in 1957)
- Wassily Leontief, 1973 (Fellow in 1965)
- Tjalling C. Koopmans, 1975 (Fellow in 1969)
- Milton Friedman, 1976 (Fellow in 1958)
- Theodore Schultz, 1979 (Fellow in 1957)
- Arthur Lewis, 1979 (Fellow in 1957)
- George Stigler, 1982 (Fellow in 1958)
- Gerard Debreu, 1983 (Fellow in 1961)
- Robert Solow, 1987 (Fellow in 1958)
- Ronald Coase, 1991 (Fellow in 1959)
- Douglass North, 1991 (Fellow in 1988)
- John Harsanyi, 1994 (Fellow in 1966)
- William Vickrey, 1996 (Fellow in 1968)
- James Heckman, 2000 (Fellow in 1979)
- Daniel Kahneman, 2002 (Fellow in 1978)
- Vernon Smith, 2002 (Fellow in 1973)
- Edmund S. Phelps, 2006 (Fellow in 1970)
- Leonid Hurwicz, 2007 (Fellow in 1956)
Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology awards:
- Joshua Lederberg, 1958 (Fellow in 1974)
- Salvador E. Luria, 1969 (Fellow 1983)
- Baruch Blumberg, 1976 (Fellow in 1997)
Nobel
Prize in Chemistry award:
- Paul Berg, 1980 (Fellow in 1998)
Nobel Prize in Peace award:
- Herbert L. Abrams, 1985 (Fellow in 1981)
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