Reinhard Selten, the only German to have ever won the Nobel Prize in Economics, died in Poland at the age of 85, the University of Bonn says.
Born in 1930 in what is now Wroclaw in Poland but was then the German city of Breslau, Selten said his family suffered discrimination because of his father’s Jewish origins, forcing the shutdown of the family business.
A picture taken on October 11, 1994 in Bonn, western Germany, shows German economist Reinhard Selten smiling as he holds flowers he received after it was announced that he was co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics. (AFP PHOTO/dpa/Stephan Jansen)
The family left the city after the Second World War. Selten went on to study mathematics at the University of Frankfurt and later became an economics professor, lecturing at the University of Berkeley, California and at several German universities.
Selten received the Nobel honor in 1994 for his pioneering work on game theory, sharing the prize with the late US researchers John Harsanyi and John Nash, the latter of whom inspired the Hollywood film “A Beautiful Mind.”
Selten died on August 23 in the western Polish city of Poznan, according to the University of Bonn in western Germany, where he spent decades as a lecturer in economics.
— AFP
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