William Sharpe

William Forsyth Sharpe (born June 16, 1934) won the 1990 Nobel Prize in Economics.

AB, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, 1955, MA, 1956, PhD, 1961. Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science, 1990. Economist, RAND Corp., 1956-61; Asst. Prof.-Prof., Univ. of Washington, 1961-68; Prof., Univ. of California, Irvine, 1968-70. At Stanford since 1970. Emeritus since 1999.

(Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business)