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Robert Solow

Scientist · born August 23, 1924 · died 2023

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Robert Merton Solow, GCIH was an American economist known for his studies of economic growth and the development of the Solow–Swan model, for which he won the 1987 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

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  1. ~37Received the John Bates Clark Medal1961
  2. ~63Received the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel1987
  3. ~75Received the National Medal of Science1999
  4. ~90Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom2014

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