[FOTZeiss] Astronomer's Son Wins Nobel Prize in Economics

[Glenn A. Walsh]

Lloyd S. Shapley, Professor Emeritus of the University of California at Los Angeles and son of distinguished 20th century astronomer Harlow Shapley, has won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics, sharing the prize with Alvin E. Roth of Harvard University.

While Director of the Harvard College Observatory, Harlow Shapley delivered the keynote address at the dedication of the rare 10-inch Siderostat-type Refractor Telescope at Pittsburgh's original Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science on 1941 November 19.

http://spacewatchtower.blogspot.com/2012/10/astronomers-son-wins-nobel-prize-in.html

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