Tjalling Koopmans, George Dantzig, and Leonid Kantorovich

Tjalling Koopmans, George Dantzig, and Leonid Kantorovich.   Koopmans and Kantorovich shared the 1975 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, for contributions to the theory of optimum allocation of resources.  According to many published accounts, Koopmans was so upset that Dantzig was not included in the 1975 award that he considered turning down the honor.