Abramovitz, Moses

1912 - Born in Brooklyn, New York.

1932 - He earned his bachelor's degree summa cum laude in economics from Harvard University.

1939 - Earned his doctorate in economics from Columbia University.

1945-1946 - He was economic adviser to the United States representative on the Allied Reparations Commission.

1949 - Joined the economics faculty at Stanford.

1962-1963 - Worked as economic adviser to the secretary general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris.

1977 - Retired from the William Robertson Coe Professorship in American Economic History at Stanford.

1985 - He received honorary doctorate from the University of Uppsala in Sweden.

1991 - Invited to become a fellow of the prestigious Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome.

1992 - Received another doctorate at the University of Ancona in Italy.

2000 - Died on December 1st at Stanford University Hospital from an infection, just one month before his 89th birthday.