Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich

Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 1975

“for their contributions to the theory of optimum allocation of resources”

Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich was a Soviet mathematician and economist. He was awarded the 1975 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (shared with Tjalling Koopmans) for his contributions to the theory of optimum allocation of resources. He was affiliated with the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.