Oskar Morgenstern

Details

Instance of

human

Born

24 January 1902

Died

26 July 1977

Place of birth

Görlitz

Place of death

Princeton

Sex or gender

male

Given name

Oskar

Family name

Morgenstern

Child

Carl Morgenstern

Field of work

economics

Occupation

economist, university teacher, mathematician, political economist

Citizenship

United States, Germany

Awards

honorary doctor of the University of Vienna, Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association, Fellow of the Econometric Society, Fellow of the American Statistical Association

described by source

Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), mises.at

doctoral advisor

Ludwig von Mises

doctoral student

Martin Shubik, Lionel W. McKenzie, Andrew Schotter, Franklin R. Shupp, Edward Joseph Zabel, William Hoyt Witherell

educated at

University of Vienna

employer

Princeton University, University of Vienna, New York University

Erdős number

4

languages spoken, written or signed

English, German

member of

American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Econometric Society

name in native language

Oskar Morgenstern

notable work

von Neumann–Morgenstern utility theorem, Theory of Games and Economic Behavior

place of burial

Princeton Cemetery

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