Robert William Fogel was an American economic historian and winner of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. As of his death, he was the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions and director of the Center for Population Economics (CPE) at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. He is best known as an advocate of cliometrics, an approach to history emphasizing the use of quantitative methods. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1993, announced October 12, 1993. Robert W. Fogel and Douglass C. North, “for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change”. Robert W. Fogel: born 1927, New York, NY, USA. Douglass C. North: born 1920, Cambridge, MA, USA. Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).