Nobel Prize Economist Gerard Debreu Dies
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Gerard Debreu, a former University of California-Berkeley economist who won a Nobel Prize for breakthroughs in the study of supply and demand, has died at the age of 83.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who  rose from guerrilla icon to Nobel peace prize-winner but ended  up isolated and mired in conflict with Israel, died in a French  hospital on Thursday, a spokesman said.
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French film director Philippe de Broca, famed for his comedies with Jean-Paul Belmondo, dies at 71.
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Polish writer and poet Czeslaw Milosz, who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1980, died at the age of 93, PAP news agency quoted his family as saying.
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Bert Bolin, a Swedish climate scientist and co-founder of the Nobel Peace-winning U.N. panel on climate change, has died at age 82.
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The Rev. Jacques Dupuis, a Belgian theologian whose book on religious plurality exploring salvation through non-Christian faiths was attacked by the Vatican, has died in Rome. He was 81.
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The French post-modernist sociologist and philosopher, Jean Baudrillard, dies in Paris aged 77.
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Tribute to the 'modern day Isaac Newton' Obituary French Nobel laureate Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, a pioneer of the liquid crystal display (LCD), died last week at the age of 74.â¦
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An 80-year-old American historian, Jaroslav Pelikan, and a 91-year-old French philosopher, Paul Ricoeur, will share the &#36;1 million Kluge prize, created last year to honor achievement in fields not covered by the Nobel prizes.
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Naguib Mahfouz, who became the first Arab writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for his novels depicting modern Egyptian life in his beloved, millennium-old corner of Islamic Cairo, died Wednesday, his doctor said. He was 94.
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French filmmaker Philippe de Broca, whose works include King of Hearts and That Man from Rio, died on Friday aged 71, according to a close aide.
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Former French Prime Minister Raymond Barre, an economist who also served as a European commissioner, died on Saturday, his family said. He was 83.
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An American and a Norwegian were awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science on Monday for research into business cycles that changed how central banks conducted monetary policy in a number of countries over the past 10 years.
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Maurice Papon, who was convicted of crimes against humanity for his role in deporting Jews to Nazi death camps during World War II, has died, his lawyer said Saturday. He was 96.
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Jacques Derrida, the Algerian-born French intellectual who became one of the most celebrated and notoriously difficult philosophers of the late 20th century, died Friday at a Paris hospital, the French president&#39;s office announced.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 25 -- James D. Watson, who shared a 1962 Nobel prize for discovering the structure of DNA, announced his retirement Thursday after controversy erupted over comments he made suggesting that black people are less intelligent than whites.
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Description: Finn Kydland and Edward Prescott win the Nobel Prize in economic science. They will share the $1.3 million prize for their work in explaining how factors such as changes in economic policy and technology drive business cycles.