What is Robert Fogel?
{{nobelprize|Economics}} [[File:Robert William Fogel.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Fogel in about 1980]] '''Robert William Fogel''' (July 1, 1926 &ndash; June 11, 2013) was an [[Americans|American]] economic historian and scientist, and winner (with [[Douglass North]]) of the 1993 [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]]. Fogel was born on July 1, 1926 in [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]] to [[Russia|Russian]]-[[Jewish]] parents. He was raised in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]]. Fogel graduated from [[Stuyvesant High School]] in 1944.<ref>{{Cite journal |url=http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0726/features/human.shtml |title=The human equation |first=Lydialyle |last=Gibson |journal=The University of Chicago Magazine |publisher=[[University of Chicago]] |date=May–June 2007 |volume=99 |issue=5 |accessdate=2007-10-31}}</ref> He studied at [[Cornell University]], at [[Columbia University]], and at [[Johns Hopkins University]]. Fogel died on June 11, 2013, at a health services center in [[Oak Park, Illinois|Oak Park]], Illinois of a short illness, aged 86.<ref>{{cite web|title=Robert Fogel, Won Nobel Prize in Economics, 1926-2013|url=http://www.chicagobooth.edu/about/newsroom/news/2013/2013-06-11-fogel|publisher=University of Chicago|accessdate=11 June 2013|archive-date=2013-06-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130615031131/http://www.chicagobooth.edu/about/newsroom/news/2013/2013-06-11-fogel|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Arnold |first=Laurence |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-12/robert-fogel-nobel-laureate-for-economic-history-dies-at-86.html |title=Robert Fogel, Nobel Laureate for Economic History, Dies at 86 |publisher=Bloomberg |date=1926-07-01 |accessdate=2013-06-12}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Cronin |first=Brenda |url=http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2013/06/11/robert-fogel-nobel-laureate-dies/ |title=Robert Fogel, Nobel Laureate, Dies - Real Time Economics - WSJ |publisher=Blogs.wsj.com |date=2012-04-17 |accessdate=2013-06-12}}</ref> ==References== {{