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Nobel Prize winner from Polytech: Vasily Leontiev's contribution to economic science! We used to know about three, but the staff of the Museum of the History of St. Petersburg State University made a real discovery: It turns out that the name of another genius is associated with our university — Vasily V. Leontiev! 🎓 In 1973, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for creating the "input — output method", which is used in all modern economic models. It is important that the Polytech was the only place in the USSR where Vasily Leontiev worked. 🌏 Besides, he was an officer of the Legion of Honor (France), a Knight of the Order of the Rising Sun (Japan) and an honorary doctor of universities in three countries.