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Lloyd Shapley
Lloyd Stowell Shapley was an American mathematician and Nobel Memorial Prize-winning economist. He contributed to the fields of mathematical economics and especially game theory. Shapley is generally considered one of the most important contributors to the development of game theory since the work of von Neumann and Morgenstern. With Alvin E. Roth, Shapley won the 2012 Nobel Memorial Prize in Econ…
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science · American mathematician (1923–2016) · economist · mathematician · university teacher · statistician · game theorist · also Lloyd Shapley, Lloyd Stowell Shapley, Shapley
Born 2 June 1923 · Died 12 March 2016 · Q244739
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2016· 4 entries
Wall Street Journal: Lloyd Shapley Won the Nobel Prize for Economics: 1923-2016
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The Economist: Lloyd Shapley, a Nobel laureate in economics, has died
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In Tucson, Arizona, after suffering from a broken hip, at the age of 92
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Died 2016-03-12.
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2013· 2 entries
Won Golden Goose Award (2013).
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Awarded Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013).
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2012· 5 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences — for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design.
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American Enterprise Institute: Larry Blume’s Thoughts on Lloyd Shapley’s Nobel Work
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The Economist: Lloyd Shapley and Alvin Roth win the 2012 economics Nobel
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The Washington Post: Nobel economics prize goes to two Americans: Lloyd Shapley, Alvin Roth
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Awarded Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (2012).
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded John von Neumann Theory Prize (1981).
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1967· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Econometric Society (1967).
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1962· 1 entry
Published “College Admissions and the Stability of Marriage” in The American Mathematical Monthly — cited 8,905 times.
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1953· 2 entries
Studied at Princeton University, Doctor of Philosophy (1953).
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Based on the thesis "Additive and non-additive set functions"
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1950· 1 entry
While a graduate student, Shapley invented the board game So Long Sucker, along with Mel Hausner, John Forbes Nash, and Martin Shubik
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1944· 1 entry
Won Bronze Star Medal (1944).
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1923· 2 entries
In Cambridge, Massachusetts, one of the sons of astronomers Harlow Shapley and Martha Betz Shapley, both from Missouri
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Born 1923-06-02.
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