A mụrụ Douglass North na Cambridge, Massachusetts, na November 5, 1920. Ọ kwagara ọtụtụ ugboro dị ka nwatakịrị n'ihi ọrụ nna ya na MetLife. Ezinụlọ ahụ bi na Ottawa, Lausanne, New York City, na Wallingford, Connecticut. North gụrụ akwụkwọ na Ashbury College na Ottawa, Ontario na Choate School na Wallingford, Connecticut. A nabatara ya na Harvard n'otu oge ahụ nna ya ghọrọ onye isi nke MetLife na ụsọ oké osimiri ọdịda anyanwụ, yabụ North họọrọ ịga Mahadum California, Berkeley. Na 1942, ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ na B.A. na General Curriculum-Humanities. Ọ bụ ezie na akara ya dị ntakịrị karịa nkezi "C", o jisiri ike mezue isi atọ na sayensị ndọrọ ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị, nkà ihe ọmụma na akụnụba.
Mahadum California, Berkeley