Comments on: Chemistry Agonistes http://www.arsmathematica.net/2006/10/15/chemistry-agonistes/ Dedicated to the mathematical arts. Fri, 29 May 2015 09:17:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 By: Walt http://www.arsmathematica.net/2006/10/15/chemistry-agonistes/#comment-1467 Wed, 18 Oct 2006 03:36:03 +0000 http://www.arsmathematica.net/archives/2006/10/15/chemistry-agonistes/#comment-1467 That’s funny. I’d heard that he’d won it, but that it might make him the first economist to really win the Prize never occurred to me.

]]> By: PeterMcB http://www.arsmathematica.net/2006/10/15/chemistry-agonistes/#comment-1466 Tue, 17 Oct 2006 23:38:43 +0000 http://www.arsmathematica.net/archives/2006/10/15/chemistry-agonistes/#comment-1466 And this year’s winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Muhammad Yunus, is an economist!

Since the prize in Economics is strictly not a Nobel Prize, but is the “Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel”, it could be argued that Yunus is the first academic economist to be awarded a Nobel Prize.

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