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Gary S. Becker

Scientist · born December 2, 1930 · died 2014

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Gary Stanley Becker was an American economist who received the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago, and was a leader of the third generation of the Chicago school of economics.

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  1. ~37Received the John Bates Clark Medal1967
  2. ~62Received the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel1992
  3. ~70Received the National Medal of Science2000
  4. ~77Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom2007

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