Harry Markowitz

Harry Max Markowitz (August 24, 1927 – June 22, 2023) was an American economist of Jewish descent. He received the 1989 John von Neumann Theory Prize and the 1990 Nobel Prize in Economics.

Early life
Markowitz was born on August 24, 1927 in Chicago, Illinois.Harry M. Markowitz – Autobiography, The Nobel Prizes 1990, Editor Tore Frängsmyr, [Nobel Foundation], Stockholm, 1991 He studied at the University of Chicago.

Career
Markowitz was a professor of finance at the Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).  He is best known for his pioneering work in Modern Portfolio Theory, studying the effects of asset risk, return, correlation and diversification on probable investment portfolio returns.

Markowitz won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1990.

Death
Markowitz died from pneumonia and sepsis, in San Diego, California, on June 22, 2023, at the age of 95.

References

Other websites
 An Hour with Harry Markowitz: Interviewed by Mark Hebner
 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 1990
 Autobiography, The Nobel Prizes 1990, Editor Tore Frängsmyr, [Nobel Foundation], Stockholm, 1991
 Banquet Speech, December 10, 1990
 Nobel Prize Lecture: Foundations of Portfolio Theory, December 7, 1990 ( PDF format )

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