Harvard University professor Alvin Roth was one of two scholars awarded the Nobel prize in economics on Monday for his studies about choices that lead to more efficient and successful match-ups between doctors and hospitals, students and schools, and organs and transplant recipients.
Roth and Lloyd Shapley, a professor emeritus at the University of California at Los Angeles, helped spark a “flourishing field of research” that revolutionized the performance of many markets, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.
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Congratulations to the Professors Roth and Shapley on a well deserved honor. I have a neighbor who received a kidney transplant using the new system for matching patients and donors. It has changed his life - in fact most likely saved his life. I wish good health and happinessto both of the Professors and I am especially pleased that Professor Shapley has at long last been recognized for his accomplishement at age 89.