Details of Dr. Robert Solow's Accomplishments

• In 1987, Dr. Solow received the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and, in 1999, he received the National Medal of Science from President Bill Clinton.
• Since 1984, Dr. Solow has served on the University of Iowa Tippie College of Business Board of Visitors. He has also taught in the College’s MBA program.
• Dr. Solow received a B.A. in economics, an M.A., and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
• He began teaching economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1949 and was promoted to the rank of full professor in 1958. He remained at MIT until his retirement in 1995 where he is Institute Professor Emeritus.
• Currently, he is the Robert K. Merton Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation.
• In 1961, Dr. Solow received the John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economics Association for early career publications.
• He served as senior economist for the President’s Council of Economic Advisors from 1961-1962 and as a key consultant to the Council from 1962-1968; as president of the American Economic Association in 1979; on the President's Commission on Income Maintenance Programs; and as hairman of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. He has been named to the Institute for Advanced Study, the Sloan Foundation, and the National Academy of Science.