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Signed card - (1915-2009) The first American to win the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1970. Considered the foremost academic economist of the 20th century, having served as an advisor to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, and being a consultant to the United States Treasury.

He was the first economist to generalize and apply mathematical methods developed for the study of thermodynamics to economics, he was one of the founders of neo-Keynesian economics and an important figure in the development of neoclassical economics.