Robert Solow

Robert Solow is the Russell Sage Foundation’s Robert K. Merton Scholar and Institute Professor Emeritus at M.I.T. He was a visiting scholar at the foundation from 1999–2000 and became the Merton Scholar in 2001. Known in particular for his work on theories of economic growth, Solow is the recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal (1961), the National Medal of Science (1999), and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2014), in addition to the Nobel Prize.