Nobel Prize

I was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, a little coal mining town in Eastern Pennsylvania, where my father owned a small business. He had first gone into business for himself after leaving Montreal and his family for the United States when he was only sixteen-years old. He moved many times in the eastern United States before…

“I don’t think anyone should write their autobiography until after they’re dead.”Samuel Goldwyn Several years ago I was on a trekking trip in the Jordanian desert with a large group of Brits. We were camping and, as usual, there was not much to do in the evenings, so we filled the hours by sitting around…

Tawakkol Karman did not submit an autobiography.

Thomas J. Sargent did not submit an autobiography.

My four grandparents all immigrated as young adults to the United States from Eastern European Jewish towns and villages early in the twentieth century. This was a generation of poor but optimistic intellectuals, who expected that the newly rationalist world would use education and creativity to leave behind boundaries, borders, and religion to build a…

Adam G. Riess did not submit an autobiography.

Brian P. Schmidt did not submit an autobiography.

Dan Shechtman did not submit an autobiography.

Elfriede Jelinek did not submit an autobiography.

Jules A. Hoffmann did not submit an autobiography.