Robert Dorfman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetRobert Dorfman
American economist
Date of Birth: 27-Oct-1916
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States
Date of Death: 24-Jun-2002
Profession: economist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Robert Dorfman
- Robert Dorfman (27 October 1916 – 24 June 2002) was professor of political economy at Harvard University.
- Dorfman made great contributions to the fields of economics, statistics, group testing and in the process of coding theory.His paper—'The Detection of Defective Members of Large Populations' (1943) is a landmark in the sphere of Combinatorial Group Testing.
- To quote collaborator and Nobel laureate Robert M.
- Solow—"After starting his career as a statistician—his paper 'The Detection of Defective Members of Large Populations' (1943) is still a landmark—he turned to economics at the moment when linear models of production and allocation captured the profession's imagination." Dorfman co-authored "Linear Programming and Economic Analysis" with Solow and economist Paul A.
- Samuelson.
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