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Fischer Black

1938 - 1995

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Fischer Sheffey Black (January 11, 1938 – August 30, 1995) was an American economist, best known as one of the co-authors of the Black–Scholes option pricing model. He held academic positions at the University of Chicago and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and later worked at Goldman Sachs. Black died in 1995, two years before the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to his collaborator Myron Scholes and colleague Robert C. Merton for the development of the Black–Scholes model and its extension to a continuous-time framework. Because the prize is not awarded posthumously, Black was ineligible for the award. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2024). Fischer Black is the 349th most popular economist (down from 331st in 2024), the 9,568th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,866th in 2019) and the 113th most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Fischer Black ranks 349 out of 414. Before him are Bjørn Lomborg, Michel Chossudovsky, Euclid Tsakalotos, Gottfried Haberler, Tatyana Golikova, and Gunter Pauli. After him are Edith Abbott, Justin Yifu Lin, Thomas Hodgskin, John Neville Keynes, Henry Charles Carey, and Robert Torrens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Fischer Black ranks 509. Before him are Neville Lederle, Alfred Raoul, Bart Berman, Shivkumar Sharma, Paula Prentiss, and David Canary. After him are Elke Erb, József Gelei, Les Aspin, Theodoros Pangalos, Miguel Jones, and Saul Malatrasi. Among people deceased in 1995, Fischer Black ranks 285. Before him are George Abbott, Iosif Kheifits, Róbert Antal, Hideko Maehata, Gottfried Haberler, and Grahame Clark. After him are Les Aspin, Víctor Peralta, Salil Chowdhury, George Stibitz, Bruno Junk, and George Woodcock.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Fischer Black ranks 9,568 out of 20,380. Before him are Harlow Curtice (1893), Jerry Weintraub (1937), Annie Easley (1933), and Gwen Verdon (1925). After him are Ol' Dirty Bastard (1968), Eileen Collins (1956), Stephen Dorff (1973), Jeff Hardy (1977), Eric Bischoff (1955), Shirley Walker (1945), Alice Calhoun (1900), and Marge Champion (1919).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Fischer Black ranks 113. Before him are David Landes (1924), Robert Rubin (1938), Anna Schwartz (1915), John Lipsky (1947), John R. Commons (1862), and Don Patinkin (1922). After him are Edith Abbott (1876), Henry Charles Carey (1793), Frank Fetter (1863), Martin Feldstein (1939), John B. Taylor (1946), and Paul Craig Roberts (1939).

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