(1910–85; b. s'Graveland, Netherlands; d. New Haven, CT) Dutch econometrician. Having initially studied mathematics, Koopmans obtained his MSc in theoretical physics from U Utrecht in 1933 and his PhD in the emerging area of econometrics from U Leiden in 1936. In 1940 Koopmans moved to Washington, working as a statistician. He joined U Chicago in 1944 and then, in 1955, Yale U. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1975.
Tjalling Koopmans
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Koopmans, Tjalling Charles (tyäl'ĭng, kūp'mäns, -mənz), 1910-85, American economist, b. Graveland, the Netherlands. Raised and educated in the Netherlands, he came to the United States in 1940 and became interested in the economics of transport costs while working for the British Merchant Shipping Mission. He was a professor of economics at the Univ. of Chicago (1944-55) and Yale Univ. (1955-81). As a result of his work on the allocation of resources, he shared the 1975 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Leonid Kantorovich. He wrote Three Essays on the State of Economic Science (1957).
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United States economist (born in the Netherlands) (1910-1985)
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| Born | August 28, 1910 's-Graveland, Netherlands |
| Died | February 26, 1985 (aged 74) New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
| Nationality | Netherlands |
| Fields | Economics |
| Alma mater | University of Leiden |
| Doctoral advisor | Hendrik Anthony Kramers Jan Tinbergen |
| Doctoral students | Leonid Hurwicz |
| Known for | Exogenous growth model Econometrics Economics of transportation |
| Notable awards | Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1975) |
Tjalling Charles Koopmans (August 28, 1910 – February 26, 1985) was the joint winner, with Leonid Kantorovich, of the 1975 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Koopmans was born in 's-Graveland, Netherlands. He began his university education at the University of Utrecht at seventeen, specialising in mathematics. Three years later, in 1930, he switched to theoretical physics. In 1933, he met Jan Tinbergen, the 1969 Bank of Sweden prize winner, and moved to Amsterdam to study mathematical economics under him. In addition to mathematical economics, Koopmans extended his explorations to econometrics and statistics.
Koopmans moved to the United States in 1940. There he worked for a while for a government body in Washington D.C., where he published on the economics of transportation focusing on optimal routing, then moved to Chicago where he joined a research body Cowles Commission for Research in Economics affiliated with the University of Chicago. In 1946, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. In 1955, he moved to Yale University where he continued to publish, now on the economics of optimal growth and activity analysis.
Koopmans' early works on the Hartree–Fock theory are associated to the Koopmans' theorem, which is very well known in quantum chemistry. Koopmans was awarded his Nobel prize (jointly with Leonid Kantorovich) for his contributions to the field of resource allocation, specifically the theory of optimal use of resources. The work for which the prize was awarded focused on activity analysis, the study of interactions between the inputs and outputs of production, and their relationship to economic efficiency and prices.
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- Nobel autobiography
- Tjalling Charles Koopmans nació en Gravelinas, Holanda.
- Biographical memoir by Herbert Scarf
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