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Current and former members of the MIT community who have won the Nobel Prize. October 15, 2007

Alumnus, former prof awarded economics Nobel

Former MIT economics professor Paul R. Krugman PhD '77 has won the Nobel economics prize for "his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity." October 13, 2008

Economists support different development path

Celebrating the inauguration of MIT's Legatum Center for Development & Entrepreneurship on Oct. 7, five Nobel laureates in economics, including MIT Institute Professor Paul Samuelson, spoke on "the role of entrepreneurship in development." October 10, 2008

Amid food price spike, Nobel laureate eyes fertilizer

One of the reasons food prices have risen sharply is the cost of fertilizer. MIT Nobelist Richard Schrock is among a handful of researchers pursuing less energy-intensive ways to produce ammonia, the main component of fertilizer. August 13, 2008

Report: Support early-career investigators

Programs and policies to support early-career investigators and high-risk, high-reward research are needed to preserve U.S. leadership in science and technology, according to a report produced by a panel that included an MIT Nobel laureate. June 3, 2008

MacVicar Day, Institute Awards deadline approaching

MacVicar Day 2008 will be held Friday, March 7, and Institute Awards Convocation nominations will be accepted through March 14. March 4, 2008

Microcredit pioneer to be Commencement speaker

Muhammad Yunus, winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, will deliver MIT's 2008 Commencement address on June 6. Yunus won the Nobel Prize for pioneering the microlending movement, which offers credit without collateral to the poor. December 5, 2007

Horvitz will deliver Killian Lecture on April 24

Nobel laureate H. Robert Horvitz, the David H. Koch Professor of Cancer Biology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, will deliver the 35th annual Killian Award lecture April 24 at 4:30 p.m. in Kirsch Auditorium (Room 32-123) of the Stata Center. April 20, 2007

Nobelists' work supports big-bang theory

MIT alumnus George F. Smoot has been awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in physics, together with John C. Mather, for work that looks back into the infancy of the universe and attempts to gain some understanding of the origin of galaxies and stars. October 3, 2006

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