 AKA Robert Merton Solow
Born:23-Aug-1924
Birthplace:Brooklyn, NY
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation:Economist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Theory of economic growth Military service: US Army (1942-45, WWII, North Africa and Sicily) Father: Milton Solow
Mother: Hannah
Wife: Barbara Lewis (m. 1945, two sons, one daughter)
University:BA, Harvard University (1947)
University:MA, Harvard University (1949)
University:PhD, Harvard University (1951)
Professor:Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1949-95)
Nobel Prize for Economics 1987
John Bates Clark Medal 1961
US Official Member, Commission on Income Maintenance (1968-70)
US Council of Economic Advisers 1961-62 (consultant, 1962-68)
Member of the Board ofFederal Reserve Bank of Boston (1975-81)
American Economic Association Vice President (1968), President (1979)
Econometric Society President (1964)
Economists for Peace and Security Trustee
American Association for the Advancement of Science Vice President (1970)
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Trustee
Accademia dei Lincei
American Philosophical Society
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Center for Economic and Policy Research Advisory Board
Federation of American Scientists Board of Directors
National Academy of Sciences
Obama for America
Russell Sage Foundation Scholar
Urban Institute Vice Chairman
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