Awards & Recognition
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Nobel Prize–Winning Authors
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Daron Acemoglu
Economics, 2024
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Claudia Goldin
Economics, 2023
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Syukuro Manabe
Physics, 2021
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Joshua D. Angrist
Economics, 2021
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David Card
Economics, 2021
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Roger Penrose
Physics, 2020
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Michael Kremer
Economics, 2019
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P. James E. Peebles
Physics, 2019
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William D. Nordhaus
Economics, 2018
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Richard H. Thaler
Economics, 2017
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Kip S. Thorne
Physics, 2017
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Angus Deaton
Economics, 2015
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Economics, 2014 -
Lars Peter Hansen
Economics, 2013
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Robert J. Shiller
Economics, 2013
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Alvin E. Roth
Economics, 2012
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Lloyd S. Shapley
Economics, 2012
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Thomas J. Sargent
Economics, 2011
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Peter Diamond
Economics, 2010
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Mario Vargas Llosa
Literature, 2010
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Elinor Ostrom
Economics, 2009
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Edmund S. Phelps
Economics, 2006
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Robert J. Aumann
Economics, 2005
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David J. Gross
Physics, 2004
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Robert Engle
Economics, 2003
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Clive William John Granger
Economics, 2003
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J. M. Coetzee
Literature, 2003
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George A. Akerlof
Economics, 2001
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Joseph E. Stiglitz
Economics, 2001
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Amartya Sen
Economics, 1998
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Wislawa Szymborska
Literature, 1996
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John Nash
Economics, 1994
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Douglass C. North
Economics, 1993
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William F. Sharpe
Economics, 1990
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Robert M. Solow
Economics, 1987
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Val L. Fitch
Physics, 1980
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William Arthur Lewis
Economics, 1979
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Philip W. Anderson
Physics, 1977
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Milton Friedman
Economics, 1976
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Baruch S. Blumberg
Medicine, 1976
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Kenneth Arrow
Economics, 1972
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Manfred Eigen
Chemistry, 1967
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S. Y. Agnon
Literature, 1966
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Richard P. Feynman
Physics, 1965
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François Jacob
Medicine, 1965
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George Seferis
Literature, 1963
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Eugene P. Wigner
Physics, 1963
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Saint-John Perse
Literature, 1960
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Luigi Pirandello
Literature, 1934
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Albert Einstein
Physics, 1921
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Woodrow Wilson
Peace Prize, 1919
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Maurice Maeterlinck
Literature, 1911
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On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done
David Badre Finalist for the PROSE Award in Popular Science and Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
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Joseph Henrich A Project Syndicate Best Read in 2019