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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fischer Black has received more than 404,407 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Fischer Black is the 331st most popular economist (down from 304th in 2019), the 7,870th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,364th in 2019) and the 106th most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Fischer Black ranks 331 out of 414. Before him are Ilham Tohti, Guido Imbens, Ha-Joon Chang, Branko Milanović, John Lipsky, and Daniele Archibugi. After him are Thomas Hodgskin, Henry Charles Carey, Gunter Pauli, Robert Rubin, Armen Alchian, and W. Michael Blumenthal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Fischer Black ranks 439. Before him are Yvonne Rüegg, Friedhelm Konietzka, Stien Kaiser, Danièle Dupré, Gyula Török, and Boris Lagutin. After him are Nicolás Ardito Barletta Vallarino, Kazım Ayvaz, Michael Murphy, Paula Prentiss, Marina Ratner, and Bronislovas Lubys. Among people deceased in 1995, Fischer Black ranks 258. Before him are Karl Warner, Aldo Gordini, Maurinho, Benjamin Mazar, Robertson Davies, and Genrikh Kasparyan. After him are Giorgio Bocchino, Sony Lab'ou Tansi, George Stibitz, Henry Roth, John Peters Humphrey, and George Abbott.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Fischer Black ranks 7,870 out of 20,380. Before him are Herb Kohl (1935), Judd Nelson (1959), Wally Funk (1939), Jamie Kennedy (1970), Warren Frost (1925), and Oliver Macdonald (1904). After him are Randy Jones (1952), Dorothy Hansine Andersen (1901), Almon Brown Strowger (1839), Jeanna Fine (1964), Marcia Neugebauer (1932), and Arthur Hohl (1889).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Fischer Black ranks 106. Before him are Charles P. Kindleberger (1910), Anna Schwartz (1915), Anne Osborn Krueger (1934), Walter Block (1941), Lawrence Summers (1954), and John Lipsky (1947). After him are Henry Charles Carey (1793), Robert Rubin (1938), Armen Alchian (1914), Don Patinkin (1922), Edith Abbott (1876), and John B. Taylor (1946).

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