It was the middle of the night in California when the Nobel Committee tried to reach Paul Milgrom to tell him he'd won the Nobel Prize in economics. But Milgrom couldn't be reached, so his neighbor — and fellow prize winner — Robert Wilson walked over.
The committee calls the winners before announcing the names to the world each year. It's always a decent hour in Stockholm -- the middle of the day -- but that means it is the middle of the night on the US West Coast.But Milgrom couldn't be reached, so his neighbor -- and fellow prize winner -- Robert Wilson stepped up and walked over to Milgrom's house. In a security camera video recording, Wilson is seen ringing Milgrom's doorbell at 2:15 a.m.
Because she received a notification from the doorbell security camera back home, she got to watch as Wilson relayed the good news, according to a tweet from Stanford University. Milgrom and Wilson, both professors at Stanford University, received the prize for their work in auction theory.
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