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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 authors of the Black–Scholes equation. Working variously at the University of Chicago, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and at Goldman Sachs, Black died two years before the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (which is not given posthumously) was awarded to his collaborator Myron Scholes and former colleague Robert C. Merton for the Black-Scholes model and Merton's application of the model to a continuous-time framework. Black also made significant contributions to the capital asset pricing model and the theory of accounting, as well as more controversial contributions in monetary economics and the theory of business cycles. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Fischer Black is the 348th most popular economist (down from 331st in 2019), the 9,562nd most popular biography from United States (down from 7,869th in 2019) and the 113th most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Fischer Black ranks 348 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 9,564 out of 20,380. Before him are Ben Lyon (1901), Michael Anthony (1954), 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), and Shirley Walker (1945).

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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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