# One of my professors won the Nobel Prize in Economics! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 11, 2005, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-of-my-professors-won-the-nobel-prize-in-economics/325778 "2005-10-11T17:11:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-of-my-professors-won-the-nobel-prize-in-economics/325778/1 "2005-10-11T17:11:05Z")
I took a class in game theory from [Thomas Schelling](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/10/10/financial/f072950D23.DTL&hw=schelling&sn=002&sc=484) as an undergrad at the University of Maryland. I found the class fascinating. Now the professor who taught it has won the Nobel Prize in Economics. Congratulations Dr. Schelling! ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-of-my-professors-won-the-nobel-prize-in-economics/325778/2 "2005-10-11T19:15:53Z")
I worked with one of the Nobel prize winners for medicine in 1990, [Don Thomas.](http://almaz.com/nobel/medicine/1990b.html) Of course, I worked with him 12 years before he won. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-of-my-professors-won-the-nobel-prize-in-economics/325778/3 "2005-10-11T19:39:48Z")
That has to be the coolest thing ever. Wonder if he still remembers you? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-of-my-professors-won-the-nobel-prize-in-economics/325778/4 "2005-10-11T20:14:58Z")
You should ask to touch it. What? I can’t possibly be the only one who wants to touch a Nobel Prize? Better yet! Try it on. Take a picture. It’d be hilarious. (And this is why my dork-ass will never win a Nobel Prize :)) ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-of-my-professors-won-the-nobel-prize-in-economics/325778/5 "2005-10-11T22:02:19Z")
[The University of Maryland](http://www.umd.edu), as I’m sure you can imagine, is over the moon about this. > [@Kythereia](#): > > That has to be the coolest thing ever. Wonder if he still remembers you? 🙂 I doubt it. I had him for one class. It was a small class, but it was just one class, in 1997. > [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > You should ask to touch it. > What? I can’t possibly be the only one who wants to touch a Nobel Prize? I would, if I thought he would remember me and let me do it, but he’s in Maryland, and I’m in California. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-of-my-professors-won-the-nobel-prize-in-economics/325778/6 "2005-10-12T00:20:18Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > That has to be the coolest thing ever. Wonder if he still remembers you? 🙂 If you meant me, I know he still remembers me. I ran into him at a conference a couple years ago. Hugs all around. We did bone marrow transplant research, you tend to get close when so many patients die. Because of his research, (and to a lesser extent, my data gathering) many more bone marrow trasplants survive now. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-of-my-professors-won-the-nobel-prize-in-economics/325778/7 "2005-10-12T02:53:55Z")
How cool is that?! I fully expect to see one of our dear friends win a nobel in medical advancement one day. He’s working on a patent right now…