LC control no. | n 50016055 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Schelling, Thomas C., 1921-2016 |
Variant(s) | Schelling, T. C. (Thomas C.), 1921-2016 |
Birth date | 1921-04-14 |
Death date | 2016-12-13 |
Place of birth | Oakland (Calif.) |
Place of death | Bethesda (Md.) |
Field of activity | Economics Game theory Nuclear warfare Social problems |
Affiliation | University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) University of Maryland at College Park Harvard University Yale University |
Profession or occupation | Nobel Prize winners Economists College teachers |
Found in | His National income behavior, 1951. His The stability of total disarmament, 1961: t.p. (T.C. Schelling) Organising to cope with global warming, 2009: p. 3 of cover (2005 Nobel Prize in econ.) Information from 678 converted Dec. 11, 2014 (Ph.D.) New York times WWW site, viewed Dec. 14, 2016 (in obituary published Dec. 13: Thomas C. Schelling; b. Thomas Crombie Schelling, Apr. 14, 1921, Oakland, Calif.; d. Tuesday [Dec. 13, 2016], Bethesda, Md., aged 95; economist and Nobel laureate whose interest in game theory led him to write important works on nuclear strategy and to use the concept of the tipping point to explain social problems, including white flight from urban neighborhoods) |
Associated language | eng |