Finn Kydland

David Gross

As this issue of 93106 was going to press, the two distinguished members of the UCSB faculty who won 2004 Nobel Prizes—physicist David Gross and economist Finn Kydland—were in Stockholm to celebrate their achievements. Their participation in an array of activities, including delivering lectures on their work, culminated in the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony and the Nobel Banquet on Dec. 10—the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death in 1896.

Gross, who shared the Nobel Prize in physics, is director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, where he holds the Frederick W. Gluck Chair in Theoretical Physics. Kydland, who shared what is officially called the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, holds the Jeff Henley Chair in Economics at UCSB.

Before departing for Stockholm, the two, along with four of the other six Americans who won Nobels this year, were received at the White House by President George W. Bush. The group also was honored at a reception at the Swedish Embassy in Washington. Swedish Ambassador Jan Eliasson called the large number of U.S. recipients of Nobel Prizes this year "a tribute to great American research institutions."

The UCSB Foundation Board of Trustees sponsored a newspaper advertisement celebrating the two UCSB 2004 Nobel Prize winners. It was scheduled to appear in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Santa Barbara News-Press on Sunday, Dec. 12.

For more information about this year’s Nobel Prize events in Stockholm, including video and text of the Nobel lectures, visit <http://nobelprize.org>.

For information about all of UCSB’s Nobel Prize winners, visit the "Gallery of UCSB Nobel Laureates" on the UCSB Web site <www.ucsb.edu/nobel>.