His thesis adviser was Nobel laureate Simon Kuznets. Future Nobel Laureate Lev Landau led the Theoretical Department. She was an aunt of the Nobel Prize laureate Friedrich Hayek on her maternal side. Virginia also names a state Poet Laureate. Edmund Skellings was selected as the poet laureate of Florida in 1980. Monty is the pet project of Professor Pitkannan, a Nobel Laureate and government cynic. Sir Ronald Ross was also the first British Nobel laureate in 1902. Wordsworth thus became the only poet laureate to write no official verses. He was the 2014 Los Angeles Poet Laureate. Satyarthi is the first natural-born Indian Nobel Peace Laureate. The first Poet Laureate of Belgium was chosen in 2014. The position of Oregon Poet Laureate has existed since 1923. The Illinois poet laureate since 2003 has been Kevin Stein. She was a finalist for California poet laureate (2005). Raman was the Indian Science-based Nobel Laureate.