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Robert Solow
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Robert Solow

1924 – 2023 · aged 99

American economist (1924–2023)

Born
23 Aug 1924 · Brooklyn
Died
21 Dec 2023 · Lexington

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 114 years
  1. 23 Aug 1924BornBorn in Brooklyn
  2. 1939 – 1945WarWorld War II
  3. 1957AwardFellow of the Econometric Society
  4. 1961AwardJohn Bates Clark Medal
  5. 1974AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
  6. 1985AwardAdam Smith Award
  7. 1987AwardPrize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
  8. 1994AwardHonorary doctorate from CNAM
  9. 1999AwardNational Medal of Science
  10. 2006AwardHarvard Centennial Medal
  11. 2014AwardPresidential Medal of Freedom
  12. 21 Dec 2023DiedDied in Lexington

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1924 – 2023).

  1. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  2. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  3. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  4. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  5. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1938Munich Agreement
  7. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  8. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  9. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  10. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  11. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  12. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  13. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  14. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  15. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  16. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  17. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  18. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  19. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  20. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  21. 1956Suez Crisis
  22. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  23. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  24. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  25. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  26. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  27. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  28. 1968Prague Spring
  29. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  30. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  31. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  32. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  33. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  34. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  35. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  36. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  37. 1985Schengen Agreement
  38. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  39. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  40. 19901990 FIFA World Cup

Biography

Robert Merton Solow (August 23, 1924 – December 21, 2023) was an American economist known for his studies of economic growth and the development of the Solow–Swan model, for which he won the 1987 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

He was Institute Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a professor from 1949 on. He was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal in 1961, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1987, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014. Five of his PhD students, George Akerlof, Joseph Stiglitz, Peter Diamond, William Nordhaus and Robert Hall, later received Nobel Memorial Prizes in Economic Sciences in their own right.

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