A professor with dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship is sharing this year’s Nobel Prize for Economics. Daniel Kahneman, 68, based at Princeton University, is sharing the roughly $1 million prize with professor Vernon Smith, 75, of George Mason University. On Monday, H. Robert Horvitz, a professor at MIT, was announced as one of three winners of the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
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