Paul Milgrom

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by @jfunez
2020-10-13T09:19:52+00:00
Science
Robert Wilson knocked on Paul Milgrom's door in the middle of the night to inform him he won the Nobel Prize
Robert Wilson knocked on Paul Milgrom's door in the middle of the night to inform him he won the Nobel Prize
Credit: Stanford University courtesy of Twitter

The Nobel Prize committee couldn't reach Paul Milgrom to share the news that he won, so his fellow winner and neighbor Robert Wilson knocked on his door in the middle of the night.

Milgrom and Wilson have been awarded the Nobel Prize in economics awarded for their work on auction theory.