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Professor Found Out He Won Nobel Prize After Being Woken by Neighbor Knocking
October 13, 2020
When Stanford University professor Paul Milgrom won the Nobel Prize in economics, the committee who announced the victors could not reach him. So co-winner Robert Wilson, who happens to live nearby, knocked on his door in the middle of the night to tell him the good news. The unlikely event was captured on Milgrom’s Nest doorbell surveillance camera Monday at his California home and was posted to Stanford University’s Twitter page, where it has gone viral with over 4.6 million views.