1. Lloyd Stowell Shapley was an American mathematician and Nobel Memorial Prize-winning economist.
13 Facts About Lloyd Shapley
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Lloyd Shapley contributed to the fields of mathematical economics and especially game theory.
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Lloyd Shapley was born on June 2,1923, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, one of the sons of astronomers Harlow Shapley and Martha Betz Shapley, both from Missouri.
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Lloyd Shapley attended Phillips Exeter Academy and was a student at Harvard when he was drafted in 1943.
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Lloyd Shapley served in the United States Army Air Corps in Chengdu, China and received the Bronze Star decoration for breaking the Soviet weather code.
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In 1950, while a graduate student, Lloyd Shapley invented the board game So Long Sucker, along with Mel Hausner, John Forbes Nash, and Martin Shubik.
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From 1981 until his death, Lloyd Shapley was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, serving at the time of his death as a professor emeritus there, affiliated with the Mathematics and Economics departments.
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Lloyd Shapley died on March 12,2016, in Tucson, Arizona, after suffering from a broken hip, at the age of 92.
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Lloyd Shapley was an expert Kriegspiel player, and an avid baseball fan.
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The American Economic Association noted that Lloyd Shapley was "one of the giants of game theory and economic theory".
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Lloyd Shapley argued with his sons about whether he should accept the Nobel Prize at all.
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Lloyd Shapley opined that his father, the astronomer Harlow Shapley, deserved it more.
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Lloyd Shapley's sons persuaded him to accept it and accompanied him to Stockholm.