Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich – Curriculum Vitae
Born:
Civil Status:
| Fellowships and honors | |
| 1944 | Order Signe of Honor |
| 1949 | Order of Labor Red Banner |
| 1949 | State Prize |
| 1958 | Member-Correspondent, USSR Academy of Sciences, Academician (1964) |
| 1965 | Lenin Prize (together with V.V. Novogilov and V.S. Nemchinov) |
| 1967 | Order of Lenin |
| 1967 | Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
| 1969 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston |
| 1972 | Fellow, Econometric Society |
| Honorary degrees | |
| Universities of Glasgow, Grenoble, Nice, Helsinki, Paris (Sorbonne) and others. | |
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Leonid Kantorovich died on April 7, 1986.
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