Sad News

From: James Poterba <poterba_at_nber.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:40:45 -0500

Dear NBER Family Members:
       I am sorry to convey the news that Victor Zarnowitz, a long-time
NBER Research Associate and a world-renowned scholar of business cycles,
passed away last Saturday at the age of 89. After a harrowing and
remarkable youth, chronicled in his 2008 autobiography _Fleeing the
Nazis, Surviving the Gulag, and Arriving in the Free World: My Life and
Times_, Victor received his Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg in
1951. He joined the NBER in 1952, and his work contributed greatly to
the study of economic fluctuations. A long-serving faculty member at
the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business, Victor remained
active and engaged to the end. He was a member of the NBER Business
Cycle Dating Committee, and since 1999, an economic adviser to the
Conference Board in New York. He will be deeply missed.
Jim Poterba
Received on Mon Feb 23 2009 - 17:40:45 EST