A rare breed. Robert Fogel, Nobel laureate, RIP. "He never - TopicsExpress



          

A rare breed. Robert Fogel, Nobel laureate, RIP. "He never demanded any of the credit.... Once when we found a particularly shocking decline in the historical infant mortality data that turned out to be completely absent from the literature, he added the results to a speech he was giving the next day at the RAND Corp. In the speech, he repeatedly referred to the results as “Ethan’s graph,” after the undergraduate who had discovered the effect."
Posted on: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:16:10 +0000

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