Noble Prize Winner Paul Milgrom '66 Alumni Visits OPHS

Noble Prize winner and Class of 1966 Oak Park High School graduate Paul Milgrom stopped by to visit campus and meet with students today! Mr. Milgrom is the winner of the 2020 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats. He is a currently a professor in the Stanford School of Engineering as well and a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Research. Some Nobel prizes are awarded for work that is purely theoretical, but Mr. Milgrom’s work has changed the lives of everyday consumers across the globe. Each time that you use a cellphone, your mobile operator uses a certain bandwidth to transmit that information – picture invisible highways in the sky. 

Thank you so much Mr. Milgrom for inspiring our students.