1983

Biographical

I was born in Lahore (then a part of British India) on the 19th of October 1910, as the first son and the third child of a family of four sons and six daughters. My father, Chandrasekhara Subrahmanya Ayyar, an officer in Government Service in the Indian Audits and Accounts Department, was then in Lahore…

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4 photos   To cite this pageMLA style: “Photo gallery – The Nobel Banquet 1983”. Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 22 Jun 2018.

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Press release

17 October 1983 THIS YEAR’s ECONOMICS PRIZE AWARDED FOR RESEARCH ON MARKET EQUILIBRIUM has decided to award the 1983 Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Professor Gerard Debreu, University of California, Berkeley, USA, for having incorporated new analytical methods into economic theory and for his rigorous reformulation of the theory of…

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Award ceremony speech

  Presentation Speech by Professor Karl-Göran Mäler of the has decided to Royal Academy of Sciences Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s prize in economics has been awarded for contributions to a topic which lies at the very core of the science, the theory of general…

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I was born in 1921 in Calais, France, the son of Camille Debreu and Fernande (née Decharne) Debreu. My father was the business partner of my maternal grandfather in lace manufacturing, a traditional industry in Calais. My paternal grandfather managed, until his retirement, the printing plant he had created in the small town of Marquise…

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I was born in 1911 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of John MacLeod Fowler and Jennie Summers Watson Fowler. My parents had two other children, my younger brother, Arthur Watson Fowler and my still younger sister, Nelda Fowler Wood. My paternal grandfather, William Fowler, was a coal miner in Slammannan, near Falkirk, Scotland who emigrated…

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Lech Wałęsa was born on September 29, 1943 in Popowo, Poland. After graduating from vocational school, he worked as a car mechanic at a machine center from 1961 to 1965. He served in the army for two years, rose to the rank of corporal, and in 1967 was employed in the Gdansk shipyards as an…

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