2009年10月12日 · Elinor Ostrom, Nobel Laureate 1933–2012 Indiana University Distinguished Professor Elinor Ostrom, the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences, died at 6:40 a.m. Tuesday, June 12, 2012, at IU Health Bloomington Hospital at the age of 78 after a battle with cancer. She was senior research director of the Vincent and Elinor Ostrom …