The University of Vienna awarded the Oskar Morgenstern Medal for the first time; the inaugural recipient was Nobel laureate Roger B
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Oskar Morgenstern
Oskar Morgenstern was a German-born economist. In collaboration with mathematician John von Neumann, he is credited with founding the field of game theory and its application to social sciences and strategic decision-making. He also made significant contributions to decision theory.
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Born 24 January 1902 · Died 26 July 1977 · Q94028
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All economic decisions, whether private or business, as well as those involving economic policy, have the characteristic that quantitative and non-quantitative information must be combined into one act of decision. It would be desirable to understand how these two classes of information can best be combined.
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Wherever mathematics has entered it has never again been pushed out by other developments. The mathematization of an area of human endeavor is not a passing fad; it is the prime mover of scientific and technological progress.
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2013· 2 entries
The University of Vienna relocated the Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics and named the square Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz in his honor
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2012· 1 entry
Published “Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,801 times.
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2007· 1 entry
Published “Guidelines for the Early Management of Adults With Ischemic Stroke” in Stroke — cited 1,840 times.
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2006· 1 entry
Published “AUGUSTUS: ab initio prediction of alternative transcripts” in Nucleic Acids Research — cited 2,755 times.
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1990· 1 entry
Published “Advanced mammalian gene transfer: high titre retroviral vectors with multiple drug selection markers and a complementary helper-free packaging cell line” in Nucleic Acids Research — cited 1,738 times.
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1977· 2 entries
Died 1977-07-26.
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“All economic decisions, whether private or business, as well as those involving economic policy, have the characteristic that quantitative and non-quantitative information must be combined into one act of decision. It would be desirable to understand how these two classes of information can best be combined.”
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1970· 1 entry
After which he joined the faculty of New York University
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1969· 1 entry
“Wherever mathematics has entered it has never again been pushed out by other developments. The mathematization of an area of human endeavor is not a passing fad; it is the prime mover of scientific and technological progress.”
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1950· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the Econometric Society (1950).
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Was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association
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1944· 1 entry
Morgenstern became a United States citizen, and four years later he married Dorothy Young, with whom he had two children, Carl and Karin
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1935· 1 entry
Morgenstern published the article Perfect Foresight and Economic Equilibrium, after which his colleague Eduard Čech directed him to an article by John von Neumann, Zur Theorie der Gesellschaftsspiele (1928)
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1928· 1 entry
Became a professor of economics at the University of Vienna, a position he held until he visited Princeton University in 1938
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1925· 1 entry
Graduated from the University of Vienna with a PhD in political science
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1902· 1 entry
Born 1902-01-24.
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