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10/21/2003 Entry: "A Nobel Prize for Swansea"
Swansea-born Statistician Clive Granger and U.S. economist Robert Engle have been awarded the 2003 Nobel economics prize for devising new methods of analysing economic data, particularly economic time series. Clive Granger was born in Swansea, but completed his secondary education at West Bridgford Grammar School, between Loughborough and Nottingham. He studied for a joint degree in economics and mathematics at Nottingham University, staying on to become a lecturer in statistics in the Mathematics Department in 1956. He later became Professor of Economics and Statistics at Nottingham before moving in 1974 to a professorship in the Economics Department at the University of California at San Diego, where he remained until his retirement in July, aged 69.
It's a tenuous link, but in Swansea we take all the reflected glory we can get. :o)
