In 1985, Franco Modigliani won the Noble Prize in Economics.
Date of Birth: June 18, 1918.
Birth Place: Rome, Italy
Died: September 25, 2003.
Death Place: Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Spouse: Serena Calabi (Married in 1939)
Nationality: Italian-American.
Country: Italy, United States.
Education: Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from The New School in Sapienza University of Rome (Laurea).
Profession: Economist, and professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Carnegie Mellon University, and MIT Sloan School of Management.
Awards: Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1985 and MIT’s James R. Killian Faculty Achievement Award in 1985.
Fields: Financial economics.