Thai Nobel Prize Winners

[judge thread]

This came up at work and I was completely at a loss. Anyone able to find a definitive list?

[dukkha]

To my knowledge there has never been Nobel awarded to a Thai person.

[GuestHouse]

List of Nobel Prize Winners

[Plus]

The OP is kidding, right?

It's like asking about famous Jewish atheletes joke from "Airplane", remember? When Leslie Nielsen asked for a "light reading".

No offense intended, just an old joke.

[taxexile]

asking about famous Jewish atheletes

mark spitz. the swimmer.

Between 1965 and 1972, Spitz won nine Olympic gold medals, one silver, and one bronze; five Pan-American golds; 31 National U.S. Amateur Athletic Union titles; and eight U.S. National Collegiate

Athletic Association Champi-onships. During those years, he set 33

World records.

He was World Swimmer of the Year in 1967, 1971, and 1972. In 1971, Spitz became the first Jewish recipient of the James E. Sullivan Award, given annually to the Amateur Athlete of the Year. In bicentennial year 2000, Sports Illustrated named Spitz No. 33 on its list of the ‘Top 100 Athletes of the 20th Century’.

The 1965 Maccabiah Games was Mark’s first international competition, and he returned to Israel in 1969, following the Mexico Olympics, to again compete in the Maccabiah. In all, Spitz won 10 Maccabiah gold medals.

[Thaddeus]

There is a cow in the field next door that has No bell

[meadish_sweetball]

Plenty of countries in the world who have never had a Nobel Prize winner.

[Losangels]

Can two former Miss Universe count as equivalent to one Nobel prize iu terms of recognition in the eyes of the world

[judge thread]

certainly in my eyes! my local female colleague swears blind there's been a few includung one in the field of education!!! I know she's on a primative nationalist rant again and want proof

[taxexile]

here is your proof........ that a nobel prize winner visited thailand and lectured at the sasin institute in bangkok

Sasin Presents Nobel Prize Winner

Published on May 10, 2005, The Nation

The American Nobel Prize-winning economist Edward C Prescott is to share his unconventional thinking with a Thai audience of academics, administrators, politicians and company executives.

The Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration of Chulalongkorn University announced yesterday that Prescott would de liver a special lecture on “Barriers to Riches” , in Bangkok on June 16. The event was being supported by the Bank of Thailand, the UOB Radanasin Bank and the Bank of Asia.

It will follow by one month a lecture by Professor Paul Krugman , who will speak on “Warning System: Positioning of Thailand and Southeast Asia” on May 17 and 18 .

Prescott won the 2004 Nobel Prize in economics jointly with Finn E Kydland, “for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles”.

Sasin institute’s director, Professor Toemsakdi Krishnamara, said the Thai audience would benefit from Prescott’s ideas and concepts.

His lecture would come at a time when, despite its recovery from the 1997 economic crisis, Thailand’s economic expansion relied mostly on export growth. The ratio of poor people without purchasing power was still rather high and this opposed the strengthening of the economic foundation, which was necessary if the problems of poverty and unfair income distribution were to be solved.

“We believe this lecture will give the audience a different concept, as Prescott is an unconventional thinker who has written more than 70 principal papers addressing topics like business cycles, economic development, general equilibrium theory, banking and finance and economic po licy,” said Pongsak Hoontrakul, a senior research fellow at Sasin.

Besides the Nobel Prize, Prescott has also received the prestigious Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics for “major contributions to new knowledge or the development of significant new modes of analysis”.

Currently, he is an economist at the Minneapolis branch of the US Federal Reserve and at Arizona State University.

He is regarded as a major figure in macroeconomics, especially in theories of business cycles and general equilibrium. In his “Rules Rather Than Discretion: The Inconsistency of Optimal Plans,” publi shed with Finn E Kydland, he analysed whether central banks should have strict numerical targets or be allowed to use their discretion in setting monetary policy.

Prescott’s Bangkok lecture, at a gala dinner, targets administrators, politicians, businessmen and company executives. Tickets are Bt5,000.

Net proceeds will be given to His Majesty the King in recognition of his efforts to eliminate poverty in Thailand.

Edited August 23, 2006 by taxexile

[judge thread]

Not very thai name_ Edward C prescott??

[chownah]

certainly in my eyes! my local female colleague swears blind there's been a few includung one in the field of education!!! I know she's on a primative nationalist rant again and want proof

You've got the proof you need.....there is no Nobel prize for education.

[alexth]

certainly in my eyes! my local female colleague swears blind there's been a few includung one in the field of education!!! I know she's on a primative nationalist rant again and want proof

Tell her to dream on...

[tourleadersi]

I did hear that a scarecrow in Issan was up for the prize. Apparently he was outstanding in his own field!

[naka]

You Naysayers ! … You lot just wait !

Next year they are going to add a new Nobel category … Procrastination.

Then you'll see them shine.

Naka.

[lannarebirth]

This came up at work and I was completely at a loss. Anyone able to find a definitive list?

By name, year,

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/a...aureates_y.html

By country, etc:

http://www.suttontrust.com/reports/nobel.doc