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Robert Solow

1924 to 2023 4 documented presences 4 places

Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for Robert Solow across 4 places, from 1924 to 2023. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Robert Merton Solow, GCIH (August 23, 1924 – December 21, 2023) 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.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Robert Solow was documented, and when

23 August 1924exact date
Brooklyn, New Yorkattested “Robert Solow was born in Brooklyn, New York, into a Jewish family on August 23, 1924, the oldest of three children.” source: Wikipedia: Robert Solow
1945year
Harvardattested “Solow returned to Harvard in 1945 and studied under Wassily Leontief, serving as his research assistant and producing the first set of capital-coefficients for the input–output model, an early contribution to computational economic analy…” source: Wikipedia: Robert Solow
1949 to 1950period
Columbia Universityattested “From 1949 to 1950, he spent a fellowship year at Columbia University to study statistics more intensively while completing his Ph.D.” source: Wikipedia: Robert Solow
21 December 2023exact date
Lexington, Massachusettsattested “Solow died at his home in Lexington, Massachusetts, on December 21, 2023, at the age of 99.” source: Wikipedia: Robert Solow

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Places Robert Solow is documented in

Columbia University1 presence · 1949Harvard1 presence · 1945
Brooklyn, New York1 presence · 1924
Lexington, Massachusetts1 presence · 2023

Other places tied to Robert Solow in the record

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September 1940month
Harvard Collegementioned “In September 1940, Solow went to Harvard College with a scholarship at the age of 16.” source: Wikipedia: Robert Solow
August 1945month
Italymentioned “He served briefly in North Africa and Sicily, and later in Italy until he was discharged in August 1945.” source: Wikipedia: Robert Solow
1949year
Massachusettsmentioned “In 1949, just before going off to Columbia, he was offered and accepted an assistant professorship in the Economics Department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.” source: Wikipedia: Robert Solow
2011year
Tufts Universitymentioned “In 2011, he received an honorary degree in Doctor of Science from Tufts University.” source: Wikipedia: Robert Solow

Documented at the same place, the same year

Hans KelsenHarvard · 1945Jerome BrunerHarvard · 1945I. M. PeiHarvard · 1945Nicolaas BloembergenHarvard · 1945

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