Tjalling Koopmans
- Prize
- Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — 1975for their contributions to the theory of optimum allocation of resourcesTogether with: Leonid Kantorovich
- Citizenship
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Kingdom of the Netherlands 
United States - Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 8/28/1910
- place of birth
- 's-Graveland
- date of death
- 2/26/1985
- place of death
- New Haven
- Lived
- 74 years
- employer
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- University of Chicago
- start time: 1/1/1944
- end time: 1/1/1955
- British Merchant Shipping Industry Joint Working Party
- end time: 1/1/1944
- start time: 1/1/1942
- Yale University
- end time: 1/1/1980
- start time: 1/1/1955
- Penn Mutual
- end time: 1/1/1942
- start time: 1/1/1941
- Netherlands School of Economics
- end time: 1/1/1938
- start time: 1/1/1936
- Princeton University
- end time: 1/1/1941
- start time: 1/1/1940
- League of Nations
- end time: 1/1/1940
- start time: 1/1/1938
- University of Chicago
- member of
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- Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- start time: 1/1/1943
- Econometric Society
- start time: 1/1/1939
- National Academy of Sciences
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- position held
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- chairperson
- start time: 1/1/1978
- end time: 1/1/1979
- chairperson
- educated at
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- University of Oslo
- end time: 1/1/1935
- start time: 1/1/1935
- Leiden University
- end time: 1/1/1936
- start time: 1/1/1936
- University of Amsterdam
- end time: 1/1/1934
- start time: 1/1/1934
- Utrecht University
- end time: 1/1/1932
- start time: 1/1/1927
- University of Oslo
- doctoral student
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- Guillermo Calvo
- Charles C. Holt
- Carl Christ
- Rolf Mantel
- Robert H. Strotz
- Stanley Reiter
- notable work
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- Koopmans' theorem
- occupation
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- mathematician
- economist
- physicist