Harry Markowitz

Also known as Harry Max Markowitz, Harry M. Markowitz

American economist (1927–2023)

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Born: 1927
Died: 2023
Works: 29

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1926-09-03
Active to: 1994-12-06

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5 total works indexed

Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data
· 2012 · cited 17,740x
Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,443x
Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,395x
The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans
· 2020 · cited 8,917x
The International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics consensus statement on the scope and appropriate use of the term probiotic
· 2014 · cited 8,365x

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Quotes

“I was a colleague of Armen's, at the Rand Corporation "think tank," during the 1950s, and hold no economist in higher regard. When I sat down at my keyboard just now it was to find out what happened to Armen's works. One Google response was someone saying that Armen should get a Nobel Prize. I concur. My own Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded in 1990 along with the prize for Wm. Sharpe. I see in Wikipedia that Armen "influenced" Bill, and that Armen is still alive and is 96 years old.”
“If I had to vote for what is the greatest piece of music ever conceived by the human mind, I'd have a hard time choosing between the Chaconne that ends Bach's second partita for unaccompanied violin or the his Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue for the piano.”
“She talks about how Brahms baby sat them while her mother, Clara, was out earning a living, concertizing all over Europe. Brahms continued in their lives until his death. She also talks about her loving relationship with her mother; her usual sibling like relationships with the other Schumann children; and how she would get mad at Brahms when he would make her mother sad, even cry, but none of them could be mad at Brahms for very long.”
“A great man who wrote and spoke great speeches as the leader of a great cause: Great., Great. Great!,”

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Key facts

Born: Harry Max Markowitz , ( 1927-08-24 ) August 24, 1927, Chicago , Illinois, U.S.
Died: June 22, 2023 (2023-06-22) (aged 95), San Diego , California, U.S.
Education: University of Chicago ( PhB , MA , PhD )
Doctoral advisor: Milton Friedman , Jacob Marschak
Influences: Tjalling Koopmans , Leonard Savage
Discipline: Financial economics
School or tradition: Chicago School of Economics
Institutions: Harry Markowitz Company, Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego , Baruch College , RAND Corporation , Cowles Commission , University of Pennsylvania
Notable ideas: Modern portfolio theory , Efficient frontier , Sparse matrix methods, SIMSCRIPT
Awards: John von Neumann Theory Prize (1989), Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1990)
Website: Information at IDEAS / RePEc

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date of birth: 1927-08-24
Erdős number: 2
name in native language: Harry Max Markowitz
date of death: 2023-06-22

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Harry Max Markowitz (August 24, 1927 – June 22, 2023) was an American economist who received the 1989 John von Neumann Theory Prize and the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Markowitz was a professor of finance at the Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He is best known for his pioneering work in modern portfolio theory, studying the effects of asset risk, return, correlation and diversification on probable investment portfolio returns.