COWLES FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH IN ECONOMICS
AT YALE UNIVERSITY

Box 208281
New Haven, CT 06520-8281

COWLES FOUNDATION DISCUSSION PAPER NO. 1029

"Tjalling Charles Koopmans
(August 28, 1910–February 26, 1985)"

Herbert E. Scarf

September 1992

Tjalling C. Koopmans made fundamental contributions to economics. This paper, prepared for a National Academy of Sciences volume of memoirs, provides a biographical sketch of this extraordinary individual.