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He was born in Calais. Just prior to the start of World War II he finished college, but instead of preparing for the university he studied at an improvised math curriculum in Ambert. Later on he moved to Grenoble. In 1941 he was admitted to the École Normale Supérieure, which he was about to graduate from in 1944 when the D-Day made him enlist in the Allies army. He was transferred for training to AlgeriaAlgeria is a country in northern Africa with a coast on the Mediterranean Sea along the north and bordered by Tunisia in the northeast, Libya in the east, Niger in the southeast, Mali and Mauritania in the southwest, and Morocco in the west (the Moroccan and then served in French occupational forces in Germany until July 1945Events January January 5 The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland. January 7 British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge. January 12 World War II:.
Eventually he graduated in the end of 1945 and later became interested in economics, particularly the general equilibrium theory of Leon Walras. He was an assistant in the Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueThe Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS is one of the most prominent scientific research institutions in France. It conducts researchs in all of scientific areas, divided between 8 departments: nuclear and corpuscular physics mathematical an and then obtained the Rockefeller Fellowship which allowed him to visit several American universities, as well as those in UppsalaThis article is about the modern city of Uppsala. If you're searching for the Uppsala of Norse mythology, see Gamla Uppsala. Uppsala [˘ɵpsɑːla] is a City and a Municipality of Sweden, located about 70 km north of Stockholm. and OsloOslo is the capital city of Norway, and has 518,929 inhabitants, which is 11. 4% of the total population in Norway. The conurbation extends into the surrounding county of Akershus and has a population of 801,028 (Jan. The urban municipality bykommune of O in 1949-50. After an offer has been made to him by the University of ChicagoThe University of Chicago is a university located in Chicago, Illinois. Just over a century old, it includes departments and committees of: Physics, Economics, Music (theory), Sociology, Linguistics, Political Science, Social Thought, International Relati for a position as a Research Associate, Debreu started working there in summer 1950. There he remained for five years, returning to Paris periodically. In 1954 he published a breakthrough paper titled Existence of an Equilibrium for a Competitive Economy (together with Kenneth ArrowKenneth Joseph Arrow (born August 23, 1921) is an American economist. He won The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1972, which he shared with John Hicks. His most significant works are his contributions to social choic). In 1955 he was moved to Yale University. In 1959 he published his first monograph, Theory of Value. In 1960-61 he worked at Stanford University and since 1962 at the University of California, Berkeley where he now holds the title University Professor and Class of 1958 Professor of Economics and Mathematics Emeritus. During his leaves in late sixties and seventies he visited universities in Leiden, Cambridge, Bonn, and Paris.
His later studies centered mainly on the theory of differentiable utility functions and least concave utility functions.
He was awarded the 1983 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for his work on general equilibrium economics. In 1976 he received the French Legion of Honor.
Debreu married Françoise Bled in 1946 and has two daughters, Chantal and Florence, born in 1946 and 1950 respectively.
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