- 1977-1978
Robert M. Solow
Spring 1978
Topics in Economics
Insitute Professor Emeritus “Robert Solow’s seminal work in the 1950s and 1960s showed how new technologies create a large portion of economic growth, an achievement for which he was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize in Economics.” Interview text at MIT News
Read the 1977 citation by the Killian Award Selection Committee