Yehuda Grunfeld


Yehuda Grunfeld was an econometrician in the late 1950s. Grunfeld's 1958 doctoral thesis at the University of Chicago is The Determinants of Corporate Investment; as of 2010, its appendix contained "one of the most widely used data sets in all of econometrics." Two weeks before beginning his professorship at UChicago, the 30-year-old drowned while rescuing his son from an undertow off the coast of Israel.