Curated category
Corresponding fellows of the British Academy
- Kenneth PomeranzKenneth Pomeranz was born on the 4th of November 1958. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University in 1980.
- Noam ChomskyNoam Chomsky was born on the 7th of December 1928 in the East Oak Lane neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His parents were Ashkenazi Jewish…
- William JamesWilliam James entered the world on the 11th of January 1842 at the Astor House in New York City. His father Henry James Sr held an independently wealthy…
- Rudolf CarnapRudolf Carnap was born on the 18th of May 1891 in Wuppertal, Germany. His father rose from being a poor ribbon-weaver to own a ribbon-making factory.
- Esther DufloEsther Duflo was born on the 25th of October 1972 at the Port Royal Hospital in Paris, France. Her father taught mathematics while her mother worked as a…
- Wilbur Kitchener JordanWilbur Kitchener Jordan grew up in the quiet town of Lynnville, Indiana. He left that small community to attend Oakland City College.
- Claude Lévi-StraussClaude Lévi-Strauss was born on the 28th of November 1908 in Brussels. His parents were French Jews who had moved there for his father's work as a portrait…
- Edmund HusserlEdmund Husserl was born on the 8th of April 1859 in Proßnitz, a town in the Margraviate of Moravia within the Austrian Empire.
- Paul SamuelsonPaul Samuelson was born in Gary, Indiana, on the 15th of May 1915. His family consisted of upwardly mobile Jewish immigrants from Poland who had prospered…
- Angus DeatonAngus Deaton was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on the 19th of October 1945. He attended Hawick High School before moving to Fettes College as a foundation…
- Walter BurkertWalter Burkert was born in Neuendettelsau on the 2nd of February 1931. He began his studies at the Universities of Erlangen and Munich between 1950 and 1954.
- Daniel KahnemanDaniel Kahneman was born in Tel Aviv on the 5th of March 1934 while his mother Rachel visited her family. His parents were Lithuanian Jews who had moved to…
- Oliver Hart (economist)Oliver Simon D'Arcy Hart entered the world on the 9th of October 1948. He was born in Britain to parents who both worked in medicine.
- C. Vann WoodwardComer Vann Woodward entered the world on the 13th of November 1908 in Vanndale, Arkansas. This small town served as the county seat from 1886 until 1903 and…
- Hilary PutnamHilary Whitehall Putnam arrived in the world on the 31st of July 1926, within a hospital in Chicago, Illinois. His father Samuel worked as a scholar of…
- Ronald CoaseRonald Harry Coase was born in Willesden, a suburb of London, on the 29th of December 1910. His father worked as a telegraphist for the post office, and his…
- Susan AtheySusan Carleton Athey was born on the 29th of November 1970 in Boston, Massachusetts. She grew up in Rockville, Maryland with parents who worked as an English…
- Pieter GeylPieter Geyl entered the world on the 15th of December 1887 in Dordrecht. He completed his studies at the University of Leiden by 1913.
- Kurt GödelKurt Friedrich Gödel was born on the 28th of April 1906 in Brünn, Austria-Hungary. He entered a world where his father Rudolf managed a major textile firm…
- Michael RostovtzeffMikhail Ivanovich Rostovtzeff entered the world in 1870 as the son of a Latin teacher. This family background shaped his early intellectual environment…
- Eric FonerEric Foner was born on the 7th of February 1943 in New York City. His father Jack D. Foner worked actively within the trade union movement and campaigned for…
- Joel MokyrJoel Mokyr was born in Leiden, Netherlands, on the 26th of July 1946. His family were Dutch Jews who had survived the Holocaust before his birth.
- Erwin PanofskyErwin Panofsky was born on the 30th of March 1892 in Hanover. His parents, Arnold and Caecilie (Solling) Panofsky, were a rentier mining family from Upper…
- George CœdèsGeorge Cœdès entered the world on the 10th of August 1886 within the city limits of Paris. His family lineage traced back to Strasbourg before the year 1740…
- William BaumolWilliam Jack Baumol was born on the 26th of February 1922 in the South Bronx. His parents Solomon and Lillian had both immigrated to America from Eastern…