Editing William Vickrey (section)

===Nobel Prize award and death===
Vickrey's Nobel Prize in Economics was announced on October 8, 1996. He became the only Nobel laureate born in [[British Columbia]].

Vickrey died three days later while traveling to a conference of [[Georgist]] academics that he helped found.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Netzer |first=Dick |date=November 1996 |title=Remembering William Vickrey |magazine=Land Lines |volume=8 |issue=6 |url=https://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/articles/remembering-william-vickrey/|access-date=2 September 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Gaffney|first1=Mason|title=Warm Memories of Bill Vickrey|url=http://www.cooperative-individualism.org/gaffney-mason_warm-memories-of-bill-vickrey-1997.htm|access-date=15 November 2016|publisher=Land & Liberty}}</ref> His [[Columbia University]] economics department colleague [[C. Lowell Harriss]] accepted the posthumous prize on his behalf. There are only three other cases where a Nobel Prize has been presented posthumously: [[Erik Axel Karlfeldt]] (Literature 1931), [[Dag Hammarskjöld]] (Peace 1961) and [[Ralph Steinman]] (Physiology or Medicine 2011).<ref>{{cite web |title=Nobel Prize facts |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/facts/nobel-prize-facts/ |website=The Nobel Prize |access-date=18 September 2023 |quote=Section Posthumous Nobel Prizes}}</ref>