This year's laureates with MIT ties include Daron Acemoglu, an Institute Professor, and Simon Johnson, the Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship, who together shared the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, along with James Robinson of the University of Chicago, for their work on the relationship between economic growth and political institutions. MIT Department of Biology alumnus Victor Ambros '75, PhD '79 also shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Gary Ruvkun, who completed his postdoctoral research at the Institute alongside Ambros in the 1980s. The two were honored for their discovery of MicroRNA. The honorees and their invited guests took part in a number of activities in Stockholm during this year's Nobel Week, which began Dec. 5 with press conferences and a tour of special Nobel Week Lights around the city. Lectures, a visit to the Nobel Prize Museum, and a concert followed. Per tradition, the winners received their...
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