Prof. Robert J. (Yisrael) Aumann of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem was named as the co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics for 2005. Aumann (75) is an internationally known researcher in the field of game theory. He has won the Israel Prize and many other honors.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that Aumann and Prof. Thomas C. Schelling of the University of Maryland will share this year’s prize “for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis.”