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Eugene Fama

1939 - Today

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Eugene Francis "Gene" Fama (; born February 14, 1939) is an American economist, best known for his empirical work on portfolio theory, asset pricing, and the efficient-market hypothesis. He is Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. In 2013, he shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with Robert J. Shiller and Lars Peter Hansen. The Research Papers in Economics project ranked him as the 9th-most influential economist of all time based on his academic contributions, as of April 2019. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eugene Fama is the 135th most popular economist (down from 131st in 2019), the 1,978th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,797th in 2019) and the 41st most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Eugene Fama ranks 135 out of 414. Before him are Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play, Clive Granger, William Phillips, Zhou Youguang, Michael Spence, and Stanley Fischer. After him are Rudolf Hilferding, Jeremy Rifkin, William Nordhaus, James Heckman, Alan Greenspan, and Adolph Wagner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Eugene Fama ranks 90. Before him are Étienne Mourrut, Scott Glenn, Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, Helmut Haller, Ruggero Deodato, and Fritjof Capra. After him are Yoshinobu Ishii, Boris Kolker, Nobuyuki Oishi, Peter Bogdanovich, Guntis Ulmanis, and Cynthia Lennon.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Eugene Fama ranks 1,978 out of 20,380. Before him are Norman Mailer (1923), Harry Harrison (1925), Temple Grandin (1947), Matt Bomer (1977), Marvelous Marvin Hagler (1954), and Wolfgang Kapp (1858). After him are Nina Hartley (1959), Norman Reedus (1969), Kelly Preston (1962), Frank Stella (1936), Creighton Abrams (1914), and Emilio Estevez (1962).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Eugene Fama ranks 41. Before him are Richard Thaler (1945), Merton Miller (1923), Thomas Schelling (1921), Thomas J. Sargent (1943), Douglas McGregor (1906), and Michael Spence (1943). After him are Jeremy Rifkin (1945), William Nordhaus (1941), James Heckman (1944), Alan Greenspan (1926), Robert J. Shiller (1946), and Paul Krugman (1953).

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