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Date of Birth
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08-June-1930
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Place of Birth
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Frankfurt
(Germany, Hesse, West Germany)
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Nationality
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Israel, United States of America
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Profession
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Mathematician, Scientist, Economist, Professor
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Robert John Aumann is an Israeli-American mathematician and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He is a professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. He also holds a visiting position at Stony Brook University and is one of the founding members of the Center for Game Theory in Economics at Stony Brook.
Aumann received the the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, sometimes referred to as "Nobel prize" for economics, see Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, in 2005 for his work on conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis. He shared the prize with Thomas Schelling.
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