SWEDEN - NOVEMBER 11: Medal for the Nobel Prize for Physics, awarded to British physicist Joseph ... [+] John Thomson (1856-1940) in 1906. The design shows a relief profile of Alfred Nobel ...

Prof Duflo's husband was her PhD supervisor and their work, alongside that of Prof Kremer's, has focused on poor communities ... created by philanthropist Alfred Nobel. Instead, the economics ...

The six prizes, each worth 10 million Swedish kronor ($917,000), are named after Alfred Nobel, a wealthy Swedish ... economic opportunities for the poor or antigovernment activism.