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Deaths In January 2017
The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2017. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: * Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference. January 2017 1 *Tony Atkinson, Sir Tony Atkinson, 72, British economist, multiple myeloma. *Hilarion Capucci, 94, Syrian Melkite Greek Catholic Church, Melkite Catholic hierarch, Patriarchal Vicar of Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchal Archeparchy of Jerusalem, Jerusalem (1965–1974). *Jewel Plummer Cobb, 92, American biologist. *Bill Craig (swimmer), Bill Craig, 71, American swimmer, Olympic champion (Swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics, 1964), complications from pneumonia. *Yvon Dupuis, 90, Canadian politician. *Peter Farmer (set designer), Peter Farmer, 75, British set designer. *Karl Gerstner, 86, Swiss typographer. *Stuart Hamilton, 87, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Atkinson
Sir Anthony Barnes Atkinson (4 September 1944 – 1 January 2017) was a British economist, Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics, and senior research fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. A student of James Meade, Atkinson virtually single-handedly established the modern British field of inequality and poverty studies. He worked on inequality and poverty for over four decades. Education and career Atkinson was born in Caerleon, a town in southern Wales near the border with England. Atkinson grew up in north Kent and attended Cranbrook School. After leaving school at the age of 17 he worked for IBM. After one year he left and moved to Hamburg to volunteer in a hospital in a deprived part of town. He cited his interest in inequality as beginning from this period as a volunteering in a German hospital and from studying the work of Peter Townsend. After studying mathematics for one year he changed to economics and graduated from the University of Cambrid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |