Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
The first prize in economics was awarded in 1969 to Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen "for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes". In 2009, Elinor Ostrom became the first woman awarded the prize.
Franco Modigliani
In October 1985, Modigliani was awarded that year's Nobel prize in Economics "for his pioneering analyses of saving and of financial markets."