When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco.
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While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning first, third, fourth and seventh prizes in an international competition for college and high school students.
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| Birth: | 5th November, 1920 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Economist |
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Douglass Cecil North was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is an American economist known for his work in economic history. In 1991, he became the first economic historian to win the John R. Commons Award, which was established by the International Honors Society for Economics in 1965. He is the co-recipient of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He held the position of Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at Cambridge University in 1981.
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