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Herbert A. Simon

1916 - 2001

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Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916 – February 9, 2001) was an American political scientist whose work also influenced the fields of computer science, economics, and cognitive psychology. His primary research interest was decision-making within organizations and he is best known for the theories of "bounded rationality" and "satisficing". He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1978 and the Turing Award in computer science in 1975. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Herbert A. Simon has received more than 1,835,910 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Herbert A. Simon is the 24th most popular economist (down from 21st in 2019), the 363rd most popular biography from United States (up from 364th in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Economist.

Herbert A. Simon is most famous for his work in artificial intelligence, economics, and political science.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Herbert A. Simon ranks 24 out of 315. Before him are Paul Samuelson, Henri Fayol, Amartya Sen, John Law, Michael Porter, and Joseph Stiglitz. After him are Simon Kuznets, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, William Petty, Carl Menger, Barack Obama Sr., and Klaus Schwab.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Herbert A. Simon ranks 15. Before him are Olivia de Havilland, Roald Dahl, Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Claude Shannon, Harold Wilson, and Ahmed Ben Bella. After him are João Havelange, Ferruccio Lamborghini, Hans Eysenck, Yehudi Menuhin, Maurice Wilkins, and Camilo José Cela. Among people deceased in 2001, Herbert A. Simon ranks 10. Before him are Josef Bican, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Claude Shannon, Jorge Amado, Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary, and Jack Lemmon. After him are Didi, Christiaan Barnard, Sabiha Gökçen, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Iannis Xenakis, and Fred Hoyle.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Herbert A. Simon ranks 363 out of 18,182. Before him are Jack Lemmon (1925), Henry James (1843), Robert Johnson (1911), Jefferson Davis (1808), Hugh Hefner (1926), and Zodiac Killer (1940). After him are Mickey Rourke (1952), Ed Gein (1906), Robert Woodrow Wilson (1936), Calvin Klein (1942), J. P. Morgan (1837), and Paulette Goddard (1910).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Herbert A. Simon ranks 5. Before him are Milton Friedman (1912), Paul Samuelson (1915), Michael Porter (1947), and Joseph Stiglitz (1943). After him are Elinor Ostrom (1933), Thorstein Veblen (1857), Gary Becker (1930), Douglass North (1920), Kenneth Arrow (1921), W. Edwards Deming (1900), and Irving Fisher (1867).

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