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Gérard Debreu was a French-born economist and mathematician. Best known as a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he began work in 1962, he won the 1983 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

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science · French economist and Nobel laureate (1921–2004) · mathematician · economist · researcher · university teacher · also Gérard Debreu, Gerard Debreu, Debreu

Born 4 July 1921 · Died 31 December 2004 · Q210960

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Jun 1997Award
Awarded honorary doctorate from University of Dunkerque (1997).
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Jun 1993Award
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1993).
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2005· 1 entry

Jan 5, 2005Documented record75% confidence

The Washington Post: Gerard Debreu, Nobel-Winning Economist, Dies

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2004· 2 entries

Dec 31, 2004Documented record86% confidence

Died 2004-12-31.

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May 31, 2004Documented record69% confidence

Alternatives Économiques: Gérard Debreu ou l'économie comme mathématiques appliquées

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1997· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1997Documented record84% confidence

Awarded honorary doctorate from University of Dunkerque (1997).

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1993· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1993Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1993).

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1990· 2 entries

Jan 1, 1990Documented record84% confidence

Career landmark: president (1990–1991).

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1990Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Served as president of the American Economic Association

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1988· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1988Documented record84% confidence

Awarded honorary doctorate from University of Bordeaux-I (1988).

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1987· 1 entry

1987Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Visited the University of Canterbury as an Erskine Fellow, lecturing in economic theory

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1983· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1983Documented record84% confidence

Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Toulouse (1983).

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Jun 15, 1983Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (1983).

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1968· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1968Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1968).

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1962· 2 entries

1962Source gives the year onlyDocumented record80% confidence

Of a general theorem on the existence of an economic equilibrium

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1962Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Won the 1983 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

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1960· 1 entry

1960Source gives the year onlyDocumented record80% confidence

Became a professor at the University of California, where he taught until 1991

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1959· 1 entry

1959Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Published his classical monograph, Theory of Value: An Axiomatic Analysis of Economic Equilibrium (Cowles Foundation Monographs Series), which is one of the most important works in mathematical economics

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1954· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1954Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Fellow of the Econometric Society (1954).

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1954Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Published a breakthrough paper, entitled Existence of an Equilibrium for a Competitive Economy, together with Kenneth Arrow, in which they provided a definitive mathematical proof of the existence of a general equilib

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1948· 1 entry

1948Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Debreu went to the United States on a Rockefeller Fellowship which allowed him to visit several American universities, as well as those in Uppsala and Oslo in 1949–50

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1946· 1 entry

1946Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

And they had two daughters, Chantal and Florence, born in 1946 and 1950 respectively

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1944· 1 entry

1944Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

The Normandy landings occurred and he, instead, enlisted in the French army

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1941· 1 entry

1941Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Was admitted to the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, along with Marcel Boiteux

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1921· 1 entry

Jul 4, 1921Documented record86% confidence

Born 1921-07-04.

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