Gary Stanley Becker was an American economist who received the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago, and was a leader of the third generation of the Chicago school of economics. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1992, announced October 13, 1992. Gary Becker, “for having extended the domain of microeconomic analysis to a wide range of human behaviour and interaction, including nonmarket behaviour”. Gary Becker: born 1930, Pottsville, PA, USA. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).