https://www.youtube.com/embed/H_TLMFIgbYY Watch a video clip of the 2018 Laureate in Economic Sciences, Paul M. Romer, receiving his Prize medal and diploma during the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 2018.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/gxtk0lrJYHY Watch a video clip of Professor Michael Ashkin receiving the Nobel Prize medal and diploma on behalf of his father Arthur Ashkin during the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 2018.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/iYX0pnQyr4E Watch a video clip of the 2018 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Tasuku Honjo, receiving his Nobel Prize medal and diploma during the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 2018.

Watch a video clip of the 2018 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Gérard Mourou, receiving his Nobel Prize medal and diploma during the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 2018.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/KEjec_fTQys Watch a video clip of the 2018 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, George P. Smith, receiving his Nobel Prize medal and diploma during the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 2018.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Q00LtfFOOsI Watch a video clip of the 2018 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Donna Strickland, receiving her Nobel Prize medal and diploma during the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 2018.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/4wDUiJfOHj8 Watch a video clip of the 2018 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Frances H. Arnold, receiving her Nobel Prize medal and diploma during the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 2018.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/V4LH9AjVi84 Watch a video clip of the 2018 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Sir Gregory P. Winter, receiving his Nobel Prize medal and diploma during the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 2018.

Paul M. Romer did not submit a biography.

I first saw light in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, at the dawn of World War II. My earliest memories are of the warm climate, skiing in winter, trout fishing in summer, and a fragrant alfalfa field outside my window. How did I get from an alfalfa field in New Mexico in the 1940s to Stockholm…