Eugene Fama

Born: February 14, 1939 - Boston, Massachusetts
Marital Status: Married - four children, eight grandchildren
Education
Undergraduate: Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts; B.A., 1960.
Graduate: Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago; 1960-63.MBA, 1963; Ph.D., 1964,
Dissertation: The Behavior of Stock Market Prices.

Honors and Activities
 At Tufts: Dean's List (1956-60);Society of Scholars (1957-60)--a group consisting of the top two students in each of the sophomore, junior and senior classes; Phi Beta Kappa; Omicron Chi Epsilon; Class of 1888 Prize Scholarship (1959)--given each year to the school's outstanding student-athlete; graduated Magna Cum Laude with honors in Romance Languages.
 At the University of Chicago: Dean's List, Beta Gamma Sigma
 ChaireFrancqui (Belgian National Science Prize), 1982.
 Doctor of Law, University of Rochester, 1987.
 Doctor of Law, DePaul University, 1989.
 Fellow, Econometric Society.
 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1989.
 Malden Catholic High School Athletic Hall of Fame, 1992.
 Smith-Breeden Prize (with co-author Kenneth R French) for the best paper in the Journal of Finance in 1992,"The Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns."
 Doctor Honoris Causa, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, 1995.
 Fama-DFA Prize for the best paper published in 1998 in the Journal of Financial Economics in the areas of capital markets and asset pricing, “Market Efficiency Long-Term Returns and Behavioral Finance.”
 Fellow of the American Finance Association, January 2001. First electedfellow.
 March 2001. Membre correspondant, Acadèmie des sciences morales et politique, section Économie,
 politique, statistique et finance, de l’Institut de France.
 Doctor of Science Honoris Causa, Tufts University, 2002.
 Jensen Prize (second place) for the best paper in corporate finance and organizations published in theJournal of Financial Economics in 2001. “Disappearing Dividends:Changing Firm Characteristics or Lower Propensity to Pay,” (with Kenneth R. French).

Work Experience
 1963-1965 Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business.
 1966-1968 Associate Professor of Finance, University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business.
 1968-1973 Professor of Finance, University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business.
 1973-1984Theodore O. Yntema Professor of Finance, University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business.
 1975-1976 Visiting Professor, Catholic University of Leuven and European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management, Belgium.
 1982-1995 Visiting Professor (Winter quarters), Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles.
 1982- Board of Directors, Dimensional FundAdvisors. Director of Research and member of Marketing Committee and Investment Committee.
 1984-93 Theodore O. Yntema Distinguished Service Professor of Finance Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago.
 1993- Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago.

Publications - Chronological Order
1. "Mandelbrot and theStable Paretian Hypothesis," Journal of Business (October 1963); reprinted in Paul Cootner (ed.), The Random Character of Stock Prices (MIT Press, 1964).
2. "The Behavior of Stock Market Prices," Journal of Business (January 1965).
3. "Portfolio Analysis in a Stable Paretian Market," Management Science (January 1965).
4. "Tomorrow on the New York Stock Exchange," Journal of Business (July 1965).5. "Random Walks in Stock Market Prices," paper number 16 in the series of Selected Papers of the Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, reprinted in the Financial Analysts Journal (September-October 1965), The Analysts Journal, London (1966), The Institutional Investor, 1968.
6. "Filter Rules and Stock Market Trading Profits" (with Marshall Blume), Journal of Business, Supplement...