Gerard Debreu
Born: 4 July 1921, Calais, France
Died: 31 December 2004, Paris, France
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for having incorporated new analytical methods into economic theory and for his rigorous reformulation of the theory of general equilibrium"
Field: general equilibrium theory
Contribution: Basic research work in the theory of general equilibrium.
Prize share: 1/1