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Tjalling Koopmans
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Dutch American economist (1910–1985)
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1910-08-28 ) August 28, 1910, 's-Graveland , Netherlands
- Died
- February 26, 1985 (1985-02-26) (aged 74), New Haven, Connecticut , US
- Alma mater
- University of Utrecht , University of Leiden
- Known for
- Transport economics , Hitchcock–Koopmans transportation problem , Ramsey–Cass–Koopmans model , Koopmans' theorem
- Awards
- Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1975)
- Fields
- Economics , Physics
- Institutions
- University of Chicago
- Doctoral advisor
- Hans Kramers , Jan Tinbergen
- Doctoral students
- Carl Christ , Stanley Reiter , Rolf Mantel [ es ] , Guillermo Calvo
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Nobel Prize
- The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel1975
“for their contributions to the theory of optimum allocation of resources”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Charles
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- 's-Graveland
- Place of death
- New Haven
- Occupation
- physicist
- Position held
- chairperson
- Educated at
- University of Oslo
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Notable work
- Koopmans' theorem
- Doctoral advisor
- Jan Tinbergen
- Image
- TjallingKoopmans1967.jpg
- Residence
- North Holland
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- date of birth
- 1910-08-28
- date of death
- 1985-02-26
- Erdős number
- 4
- Commons category
- Tjalling Koopmans
- influenced by
- George Bernard Dantzig
- member of
- Econometric Society
- birth name
- Tjalling Charles Koopmans
- name
- Challing Koopmans
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- name in native language
- Tjalling Koopmans
- interested in
- economics
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Encyclopedic overview
Tjalling Charles Koopmans (August 28, 1910 – February 26, 1985) was a Dutch-American mathematician and economist. He was the joint winner with Leonid Kantorovich of the 1975 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on the theory of the optimum allocation of resources. Koopmans showed that on the basis of certain efficiency criteria, it is possible to make important deductions concerning optimum price systems.
Biography
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