Oct 13, 2020 15:00:00

In the middle of the night, a movie in which the Nobel Prize winner goes to the home of another winner and tells the prize is released and becomes a hot topic

by Nobel Media. Ill. Niklas Elmehed

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which selects the Nobel Prize, announced on October 12, 2020 that it will present the 2020 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences to Stanford University economists Professor

Paul Milgrom and Professor Emeritus Robert Wilson . .. Upon receiving this news, Mr. Wilson went directly to Mr. Milgrom's home in the middle of the night, and a movie telling him that he won the Nobel Prize was released and became a hot topic.

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The winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences were Milgrom Wilson, who contributed to the development of 'auction theory' by introducing the method of game theory into auctions. Their research is not limited to theory, but is also useful in people's real life, such as being used in ' radio wave auctions ' that are held when deciding the frequency allocation of radio waves .

Mr. Milgrom (left) and Mr. Wilson (right)

The Nobel Committee contacted Wilson at the same time as the announcement to inform him of the award, but was unable to contact co-winner Milgrom because he did not know his personal contact information. Wilson gave Milgrom's contact information to the Nobel Committee, but due to the time difference, the local time in California, USA, where they live, was midnight at 2:00 am, so Milgrom was eventually called. did not.

There, Wilson, who lives across the street from Mr. Milgrom's home, visited Mr. Milgrom's house directly at around 2:15 am and announced that he had won the Nobel Prize. Stanford University has posted a video of this time recorded on Mr. Milgrom's home intercom on Twitter.

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#NobelPrize committee couldn't reach Paul Milgrom to share the news that he won, so his fellow winner and neighbor Robert Wilson knocked on his door in the middle of the night. Pic.twitter.com/MvhxZcgutZ

— Stanford University (@Stanford) October 12, 2020

Wilson is a man reaching for an intercom button in total darkness.

Wilson calls Milgrom's name 'Paul, Paul' while knocking on the door. Behind him is Mrs. Mary, the wife of Mr. Wilson.

About 30 seconds later, when Milgrom appeared on the intercom, Wilson said at the very beginning of the opening, 'Bob Wilson. You won the Nobel Prize.'

Mr. Wilson and Mrs. Mary explained that the Nobel Committee did not know Mr. Milgrom's contact information and that Mr. Wilson gave the Nobel Committee the number of Mr. Milgrom's mobile phone. In response, Mr. Milgrom, who looked surprised, answered only 'Wow, that's right' after a while.

This video has been played 2.36 million times at the time of writing the article, and Stanford University's tweet that posted the video also received 60,000 likes.

Mr. Wilson himself said that when this news first came, he thought it was a phone fraud and pulled out his home phone line. There, the Nobel Committee contacted Mrs. Mary instead, and Wilson learned that she had won the Nobel Prize in Economics.

The prize money of 10 million Swedish kronor (about 119.47 million yen) awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences along with the award is said to be evenly divided between them.