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Paul Anthony Samuelson (May 15, 1915 – December 13, 2009) was an American economist who was the first American to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. When awarding the prize in 1970, the Swedish Royal Academies stated that he "has done more than any other contemporary economist to raise the level of scientific analysis in ...

Paul Samuelson was one of the most influential economists of the 20th century and was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1970. Samuelson was the author of a major body of theoretical economics in many ...

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1970 was awarded to Paul A. Samuelson "for the scientific work through which he has developed static and dynamic economic theory and actively contributed to raising the level of analysis in economic science"

American Economist Paul Anthony Samuelson was the winner ofthe Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1970. Often referred to as the ‘Father of Modern Economics’, he pioneered the inclusion of mathematics with the theories ofeconomics.Before him,economics was taught based on verbal explanations and vague derivations.

In 1970 Paul Samuelson became the first American to receive the Nobel Prize in economics. It was awarded “for the scientific work through which he has developed static and dynamic economic theory and actively contributed to raising the level of analysis in economic science.”

Paul Samuelson, Faculty. Called the father of modern economics, Samuelson became the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Economics (1970) for his work to transform the fundamental nature of the discipline.

Paul A. Samuelson, the first American Nobel laureate in economics and the foremost academic economist of the 20th century, died Sunday at his home in Belmont, Mass. He was 94.

MIT economist Paul A. Samuelson, the Nobel laureate whose mathematical analysis provided the foundation on which modern economics is built and whose textbook influenced generations of students, died today at his home in Belmont, Mass. He was 94.