1995
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard – Biographical
Biographical
I was born during the war, on October 20, 1942, as the second of five children. My father, Rolf Volhard, was an architect. He was the eighth of ten children of Franz Volhard, a professor of medicine in Frankfurt, and specialist for heart and kidney. My mother’s mother, Lies Haas-Möllmann, was a painter but had…
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Robert E. Lucas Jr. – Biographical
Biographical
I was born in 1937, in Yakima, Washington, the oldest child of Robert Emerson Lucas and Jane Templeton Lucas. My sister Jenepher was born in 1939 and my brother Peter in 1940. My parents had moved to Yakima from Seattle, to open a small restaurant, The Lucas Ice Creamery. The restaurant was a casualty of…
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Press release
Press release
English 10 October 1995 has decided to award the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 1995, to Professor Robert E. Lucas, Jr., University of Chicago, USA, for having developed and applied the hypothesis of rational expectations, and thereby having transformed macroeconomic analysis and deepened our understanding of economic policy.…
morePressmeddelande: Sveriges Riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne år 1995
Press release
Swedish har beslutat utdela Sveriges Riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne år 1995 till Professor Robert E. Lucas, Jr., University of Chicago, USA för att ha utvecklat och tillämpat hypotesen om rationella förväntningar och i grunden förändrat makroekonomisk analys och synen på ekonomisk politik. Rationella förväntningar har revolutionerat makroekonomisk analys och synen…
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