The biography of Eugene Fama

Born on February 14, 1939 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, he is the third generation of Italian immigrants. Graduated from Tufts University (Tufts), Massachusetts, in 1960, majoring in French and receiving a bachelor's degree. He studied MBA at the Graduate School of the University of Chicago Business School from 1960 to 1963. He began studying for a doctorate in 1963 and received his doctorate in 1964. His doctoral thesis was "Stock Market Price Trends". From 1966 to 1968, he was an associate professor of finance at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. From 1968 to 1993, he was a professor of finance at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. In 1995, Fama was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Leuven in Belgium.

Eugene Fama participated in many academic groups while attending Tufts University and the University of Chicago. Professor Eugene Fama is a member of the American Economic Association and the American Finance Association, associate editor of Finance magazine (1971-1973, 1977-1980), consulting editor of Financial Economics magazine (1974-), and American Economic Review Deputy editor of the magazine (1975-1977), deputy editor of the magazine "American Monetary Economics" (1984-1996), academician of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, member of the Econometric Society, and member of the American Finance Association.

In October 2013, due to their empirical analysis of asset prices, Eugene Fama and another University of Chicago professor, Lars Peter Hansen, one of the representatives of the Chicago School of Economics, and Robert Shiller won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics.