Robert W. Rosenthal

Robert W. Rosenthal (1945 - February 7 2002) was an American economist, most known for his contributions to game theory.

He obtained a B.A. in political economy from Johns Hopkins University (1966),
M.S. (1968) and
Ph.D. (1971) in operations research from Stanford University, advised by Robert B. Wilson. [R. W. Rosenthal, [http://www.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=wilson Preface] ] He worked as assistant professor in the department of Industrial Engineering andmanagement science at
Northwestern University (1970-76), was member of the technical staff at
Bell Labs (1976-83),was professor of economics at
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1983-84),
State University of New York at Stony Brook (1984-87) and
Boston University where worked until his death from a heart attack (1987-2002). [Andrew Postlewaite and Robert Wilson, "Introduction to the special issue in memory of Robert W. Rosenthal", in Games and Economic Behavior 45(2):271-277, 2003.] He also had appointment with Massachussetts Institute of Technology (2000), Harvard University (1993) and Catholic University of Louvain (1973).He held a Fulbright chair in economics at University of Siena (2001).

He authored many journal articles, and independently defined the revelation principle and random matching, as applied in workswith Henry Landau. [ [http://ideas.repec.org/f/pro267.html#details publication list] from Research papers in economics.] Also, he was associate editor of Games and Economic Behavior (1988-2002), Journal of Economic Theory (1999–2002),
Mathematics of Operations Research (1981-88) and (1978-82).

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