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Most Harvard professors yesterday attached the usual string of superlatives to Wassily W. Leontief, Lee Professor of Economics, who was awarded the 1973 Nobel Prize in Economics: he is "hardworking," "inventive," "brilliant," "creative...
...only one of Leontief's colleagues cited a quality that probably played no role in the Swedish Academy of Science's selection process...
...Professor Leontief has been wonderfully successful in resisting the conservative tendencies of our trade," John Kenneth Galbraith, War burg Professor of Economics, said yesterday...
...Leontief distinguished himself as an independent in Harvard's Economics Department last year when he joined a small minority of Faculty members who voted to award tenure to Samuel S. Bowles, associate professor of Economics...
...native of Russia, Leontief came to Harvard in 1931 as an instructor of Economics, became assistant professor in 1933, associate professor in 1939, and professor in 1946. In 1947, he was named Frank W. Tausing Research Professor, a one-year appointment...