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Celebrating a Yale Nobelist
By Mark Alden Branch ’86
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7:55am October 09 2018
Most Nobel Prize contenders are on high alert this time of year for the fabled early-morning call from Stockholm. But at a press conference yesterday celebrating his Nobel win, Sterling Professor of Economics William Nordhaus ’63 said he actually slept through the call. “My daughter called me around 7 and said ‘isn’t it nice?’ And I said ‘what is that?’” Nordhaus told a packed classroom in Evans Hall. “And that’s how I found out.” Nordhaus was cited for his work on documenting the real economic costs of climate change. 
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