Harry M. Markowitz
Photo gallery
1 (of 3) Harry M. Markowitz receiving his prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at the Stockholm Concert Hall, on 10 December 1990.
Nobel Foundation. Photo: Lars Åström
2 (of 3) All 1990 Nobel Prize laureates assembled on stage at the Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden on 10 December 1990: physics laureates Jerome I. Friedman, Henry W. Kendall and Richard E. Taylor, Chemistry laureate Elias James Corey, medicine laureates Joseph E. Murray and E. Donnall Thomas, literature laureate Octavio Paz and economic sciences laureates Harry M. Markowitz, Merton H. Miller and William F. Sharpe.
Nobel Foundation. Photo: Lars Åström
3 (of 3) Harry M. Markowitz delivering his banquet speech at the Nobel Banquet at the Stockholm City Hall, 10 December 1990.
Nobel Foundation. Photo: Lars Åström
Nobel Prizes and laureates
Six prizes were awarded for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. The 12 laureates' work and discoveries range from proteins' structures and machine learning to fighting for a world free of nuclear weapons.
See them all presented here.