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When Wassily Leontief heard that a Harvard professor with a Russian name had won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Economics, he rushed out to buy a newspaper--only to find that the winner was his colleague Simon S. Kuznets...
...last fall, when a similar rumor travelled the academic grapevine, Leontief had no doubts that this time the prize was his. He was the only department member with a Russian name, and his widely used input-output theorem had long been considered worthy of the $120,000 cash prize...
...eight professors are: Karl F. Austen, professor of medicine; Eugene Braunwald, Hersey Professor of Physics; William D. Cochran'45, assistant clinical professor of pediatrics; Jerome Gross, professor of medicine; Hendrick S. Houthakker, professor of economics; Wassily W. Leontief, Lee Professor of Economics; C. Frederick Mosteller, professor of mathematical statistics; Bert L. Vallee, Cabot Professor of Biological Chemistry...
...department's great individualists, men such as Simon S. Kuznets, Baker Professor of Economics Emeritus, Wassily W. Leontif, Lee Professor of Economics, and John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics, on whom much of the department's reputation has long been founded. But Kuznets has retired, and Galbraith and Leontief are in their sixties...
Signers of the petition, which appeared as an advertisement in yesterday's New York Times, include Kenneth J. Arrow, professor of Economics; Konrad E. Bloch, Higgins Professor of Biochemistry; Simon F. Kuznets, George F. Baker Professor of Economics, emeritus; Wassily W. Leontief, Henry Lee Professor of Economics; Dean Rosovsky; and Krister Stendahl, dean of the Divinity School...