Debreu, Gerard

Gerard Debreu was born in Calais, France on July 4, 1921. In 1948, Debreu came to the United States on a Rockefeller Scholarship. In 1950, he began working at the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics at the University of Chicago. Early in 1962, he became a member of Berkeley's Economics faculty, and his Nobel Prize of 1983 was the first of a string of four Nobel Prizes won by Berkeley Economics professors. He retired in 1991, but he continued his teaching and research activities for several years. Debreu passed away in Paris on December 31, 2004.

From the description of Gerard Debreu papers 1949-2001. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 180689800

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