Wassily Leontief, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Wassily Leontief

Russian economist

Date of Birth: 05-Aug-1906

Place of Birth: Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Date of Death: 05-Feb-1999

Profession: economist, pedagogue, statistician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Wassily Wassilyevich Leontief (Russian: ??????? ?????????? ????????; August 5, 1905 – February 5, 1999), was a Russian-American economist known for his research on input-output analysis and how changes in one economic sector may affect other sectors.Leontief won the Nobel Committee's Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1973, and four of his doctoral students have also been awarded the prize (Paul Samuelson 1970, Robert Solow 1987, Vernon L.
Smith 2002, Thomas Schelling 2005).