1917 Aug. 21:
Born in Moscow to Polish Jewish parents
1919:
Family flees back to Warsaw
1938:
After studying the piano, economics, and physics, graduated with a law degree from the University of Warsaw
1938:
Began study of economics at London School of Economics
1939:
Took refuge in Geneva and emigrated to the U.S. a year later
1944 -
1946:
Research Associate at the Cowles Commission in Chicago, working chiefly on econometrics, a new field of study
1945:
Published The Theory of Economic Behavior,American Economic Review, Vol. 35, No. 5, reprinted many times, most recently in 2004
1946 -
1949:
Professor of Economics at Iowa State
1949 -
1951:
Professor of Economics, Maths and Statistics, University of Illinois
1951 -
1999:
Professor of economics and mathematics in the School of Business Administration at the University of Minnesota.
1958:
Publication of Studies in Linear and Non-Linear Programming, edited by Kenneth J. Arrow, Leonid Hurwicz, and Hirofumi Uzawa, Stanford University Press
1961:
Became chair of the University’s statistics department
1971:
Publication of Preferences, Utility,and Demand, edited by John S. Chipman, Leonid Hurwicz, Marcel K. Richter, and H. Sonnenschein, Harcourt Brace Jovanovic
1977:
Published Studies in Resource Allocation Processes, edited by Kenneth J. Arrow and Leonid Hurwicz, Cambridge University Press
1990:
Awarded the National Medal of Science by President Bush
2006:
Published Designing Economic Mechanisms, with Stanley Reiter, Cambridge University Press
2007:
Oldest individual to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, shared with Eric S. Maskin of Princeton University and Roger B. Myerson of the University of Chicago for mechanism-design theory
2008 June 26:
Died at the age of 90 in Minneapolis
From the guide to the Leonid Hurwicz Papers, 1930-2008 and undated, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University)
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