Nobel Prize winner Elinor Ostrom dies
Photo credit: AP | In an Oct. 12, 2009 file photo Elinor Ostrom poses for a portrait in Bloomington, Indiana, after becoming the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics. A university spokesman said Ostrom died from cancer Tuesday, June 12, 2012 at a Bloomington hospital. She was 78.
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Elinor Ostrom, a globe-trotting professor who in 2009 became the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in economics, died June 12 at a hospital in Bloomington, Ind. She was 78 and had cancer.
Her death was announced by Indiana University, where Ostrom had taught and worked for more than four decades in relative obscurity until the Nobel Prize catapulted her to fame.
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