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Date of Birth
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24-August-1927
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Place of Birth
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Chicago
(Illinois, United States of America, Chicago metropolitan area, Area code 872)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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H. Markowitz
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Profession
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Scientist, Economist, Professor
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Harry Max Markowitz is an American economist, and a recipient of the 1989 John von Neumann Theory Prize and the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Markowitz is a professor of finance at the Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego. He is best known for his pioneering work in modern portfolio theory, studying the effects of asset risk, return, correlation and diversification on probable investment portfolio returns.
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