1993
Press release
Press release
12 October 1993 THIS YEAR’s PRIZEWINNERS ARE LEADING FIGURES WITHIN THE FIELD OF “NEW ECONOMIC HISTORY” has decided to award the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 1993 jointly to Professor Robert W. Fogel, University of Chicago, USA, and Professor Douglass C. North, Washington University, St. Louis, USA,…
moreAward ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor Lennart Jörberg of the Translation of the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Robert Fogel and Douglass North have been awarded this year’s Prize in Economics for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional…
moreRobert W. Fogel – Biographical
Biographical
I was born in New York City in 1926, four years after my parents and my brother migrated to the United States from the city of Odessa in Russia. Although they arrived in New York penniless, my parents scraped together enough savings to establish the first of several small businesses just after I was born.…
moreAward ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor Bertil Daneholt of the Nobel Assembly of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Why do children resemble their parents? This question has probably always fascinated humans, but not until the advent of natural science have we arrived at an increasingly satisfactory answer.…
moreRichard J. Roberts – Biographical
Biographical
I was born in 1943, the only child of John and Edna Roberts (née Allsop) in Derby, England. My father was a motor mechanic and my mother a homemaker. We moved to Bath when I was four and so I consider myself a Bathonian. My elementary education was at Christ Church infant school and St.…
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