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  1. Daniel Kahneman was born in Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine, on March 5, 1934. [8][9] His parents were Lithuanian Jews who had emigrated to France in the early 1920s. [9] He spent his childhood years in Paris. Kahneman and his family were in Paris when it was occupied by Nazi Germany in 1940.

  2. Sep 20, 2024 · Daniel Kahneman was an Israeli-born psychologist and a corecipient of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2002 for his integration of psychological research into economic science. His pioneering work examined human judgment and decision making under uncertainty. Kahneman shared the award with Vernon L. Smith.

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  3. Mar 27, 2024 · Daniel Kahneman was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, while his mother was visiting her extended family. The family’s regular domicile was in Paris, France. After his father’s death in 1944, he moved with his mother and sister to Palestine. He studied psychology at Hebrew University and the University of California, earning his Ph.D. in 1961.

  4. Biographical. Early years. I was born in Tel Aviv, in what is now Israel, in 1934, while my mother was visiting her extended family there; our regular domicile was in Paris. My parents were Lithuanian Jews, who had immigrated to France in the early 1920s and had done quite well. My father was the chief of research in a large chemical factory.

  5. Kahneman was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1934, and spent much of his early years in Nazi-occupied France, where his father worked as chief of research in a chemicals factory.

  6. May 3, 2024 · Daniel Kahneman obituary: psychologist who revolutionized the way we think about thinking ... Kahneman, the son of Lithuanian Jews who had emigrated to France in the 1920s, was born in 1934 in Tel ...

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  8. Mar 28, 2024 · Kahneman was born in 1934 in Tel Aviv, during a trip his mother was taking to visit relatives; his parents were living in France at the time. After escaping Nazi occupation in World War II, Kahneman and his family immigrated in early 1948 to British-controlled Palestine shortly before the formation of the modern state of Israel, where he later served in the Israel Defense Forces and trained as ...

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