Amos Tversky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Amos Tversky

Israeli psychologist

Date of Birth: 16-Mar-1937

Place of Birth: Haifa, Haifa District, Israel

Date of Death: 02-Jun-1996

Profession: economist, psychologist, university teacher

Nationality: Israel

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Amos Nathan Tversky (Hebrew: ???? ???????; March 16, 1937 – June 2, 1996) was a cognitive and mathematical psychologist, a student of cognitive science, a collaborator of Daniel Kahneman, and a figure in the discovery of systematic human cognitive bias and handling of risk. Much of his early work concerned the foundations of measurement.
He was co-author of a three-volume treatise, Foundations of Measurement (recently reprinted).
His early work with Kahneman focused on the psychology of prediction and probability judgment; later they worked together to develop prospect theory, which aims to explain irrational human economic choices and is considered one of the seminal works of behavioral economics.
Six years after Tversky's death, Kahneman received the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics for the work he did in collaboration with Amos Tversky.
(The prize is not awarded posthumously.) Kahneman told The New York Times in an interview soon after receiving the honor: "I feel it is a joint prize.
We were twinned for more than a decade." Tversky also collaborated with many leading researchers including Thomas Gilovich, Itamar Simonson, Paul Slovic and Richard Thaler.
A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Tversky as the 93rd most cited psychologist of the 20th century, tied with Edwin Boring, John Dewey, and Wilhelm Wundt.