Maurice Allais
Curriculum Vitae
| Born in Paris May 31, 1911, Paris, France | |
| Education | |
| 1931-1933 | Ecole Polytechnique, ranked first on graduation |
| 1934-1936 | Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines, Paris |
| 1949 | University of Paris, Faculty of Science, Doctor-Engineer |
| Academic appointments | |
| 1944 – | Professor of Economics, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines, Paris |
| 1944-1970 | Director, Group of Economic and Social Research, Paris |
| 1946 – | Director, Economic Analysis Centre (National Centre for Scientific Research and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines, Paris) |
| 1946-1980 | Director of a Research Unit, National Centre for Scientific Research |
| 1947-1968 | Professor of Theoretical Economics, Institute of Statistics, University of Paris |
| 1947-1980 | Member, National Committee of the National Centre for Scientific Research |
| 1967-1970 | Professor of Economics, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva |
| 1970-1985 | Director, Seminar of Monetary Analysis at the University of Paris-X |
| Nonacademic offices | |
| 1937-1943 | Head of the Mines Service, Nantes, and in charge of Railway Control |
| September 1939 – July 1940 |
Lieutenant (Artillery), French Alpine Army |
| 1943-1948 | Director, Bureau of Mines Documentation and Statistics, Paris |
| 1944 – | Engineer General Honorary of the Mines National Corps |
| 1960-1961 | Member, Energy Commission of the French Economic and Social Council |
| 1963-1964 | Chairman, Commission of Experts for the Study of Options in the Transport Tariff Policy, European Economic Community |
| Honors and fellowships | |
| 1933 | Prix Laplace and Prix Rivot of the Academy of Sciences for his rank (first) on graduation from the Ecole Polytechnique |
| 1949 | Fellow of the International Econometric Society |
| December 20, 1949 | Officier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques |
| 1951 | Member of the International Statistical Institute |
| 1952-1984 | Member, Editorial Board, Revue d ‘Economie Politique |
| 1954 | Prix Charles Dupin of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences for his book, A la Recherche d’une Discipline Economique (In Quest of an Economic Discipline), 1943 |
| 1956 | Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences |
| 1958 | Fellow of the Operations Research Society of America |
| 1958 | The Lanchester Prize of the Johns Hopkins University and the Operations Research Society of America for the outstanding paper on operations research published in 1957, Method of Appraising Economic Prospects of Mining Exploration over Large Territories – Algerian Sahara Case Study. |
| 1958-1959 | Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Thomas Jefferson Center, University of Virginia |
| 1959-1969 | Member of the Editorial Board, Econometrica (together with Ragnar Frisch, Milton Friedman, Tjalling Koopmans, Wassily Leontieff, and Richard Stone) |
| 1959 | Prix Joseph Dutens of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences for his work, La Gestion des Houillères Nationalisées et la Théorie Economique (The Management of Nationalized Coal Mines and Economic Theory), 1953 |
| 1959 | Prix Galabert of the French Astronautical Society for his research on gravity and the movement of the paraconical pendulum |
| 1959 | Laureate, Gravity Research Foundation, USA, for his memoir, New Theoretical and Experimental Research Work on Gravity, 1959 |
| 1960 | Grand Prix de la Communauté Atlantique of the French Association for the Atlantic Community for his book, L’Europe Unie, Route de la Prospérité “ (United Europe and the Road of Prosperity), 1959 |
| 1960-1965 | Member, Council of the Econometric Society |
| March 5, 1962 | Chevalier dans l’Ordre de l’Economie Nationale |
| 1968 | Grand Prix André Arnoux of the Association for Economic Liberty and Social Progress for his whole work |
| 1970 | Gold Medal of the Society for the Promotion of National Industry for his whole work |
| July 1972 | Elected Chairman of the Association Française de Science Economique (Resigned for reasons of health, October 1972) |
| 1976 | Honorary Member of the American Economic Association |
| July 14, 1977 | Officier dans l’Ordre de la Légion d’Honneur ) |
| 1978 | Gold Medal of the National Centre for Scientific Research for his whole work |
| 1983 | Prix Robert Blanché of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences for his memoir, Fréquence, Probabilité et Hasard (Frequency, Probability and Chance), 1982 |
| 1984 | Grand Prix Zerilli Marimó of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences for his whole work |
| 1987 | Prix spécial du Jury, on the occasion of the creation of the “Prix Dupuit-de-Lesseps”, for his whole work on the economy of transport infrastructures |
| Honorary degrees | |
| 1964 | Doctor honoris causa, University of Groningen |
This CV was written at the time of the award and later published in the book series Les Prix Nobel/Nobel Lectures. The information is sometimes updated with an addendum submitted by the Laureate. To cite this document, always state the source as shown above.
Maurice Allais died on 9 October 2010.
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