Prior to 1999, the only two India-born Indians to be awarded the Nobel Prize were RabindranathTagore (in 1913) and CV Raman (in 1930). In October 1998 the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences selected…
Andrés Oppenheimer is the Latin American editor and syndicated foreign affairs columnist with The Miami Herald. His column, The Oppenheimer Report, appears twice a week in The Miami Herald and more than 60…
Andrés Pastrana is born 17 August 1954 in Bogota. He was the President of Colombia from 1998 to 2002, following in the footsteps of his father, Misael Pastrana who was president from 1970…
Antonio Damasio's research has served to lay the foundations of a neurological theory of emotions and has shown that emotions play a central role in decision-making and in social knowledge, focusing especially on…
Bernardo Kliksberg is an Argentine Doctor of Economics, recognized around the world as the founder of a new discipline, social management, and as a pioneer of development ethics, social capital and corporate social responsability. Bernardo…
Few journalists in America’s history have had the impact on their era and their craft as Carl Bernstein. For forty years, from All the President’s Men to A Woman-In-Charge: The Life of Hillary Clinton, Bernstein’s books,…
During the 1980’s and 1990’s, Carl Lewis established himself as arguably the greatest track and field athlete of all time. Remarkably, Carl maintained his performance level with age. He capped his amazing Olympic…
Christopher A. Pissarides was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2010. Sir Christopher Pissarides is the Regius Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, a Professor of European Studies…
Daniel Kahneman
NOBEL MEMORIAL PRIZE WINNER IN ECONOMIC SCIENCES.
LEADING PSYCHOLOGIST IN BEHAVIORAL ECONOMY. BESTSELLING AUTHOR, “THINKING, FAST & SLOW”.
Daniel Kahneman is the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize Winner in Economic Sciences for his pioneering work on the psychology of judgment and decision making as well as behavioural economics, exploring the ways we…
Edmond H. Fischer is a biochemist best known for his discoveries concerning reversible protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism, for which he and his collaborator, Edwin G Krebs, received the 1992 Nobel…