George Kuznets

George M. Kuznets was an American economist. A member of the University of California, Berkeley's department of agricultural and resource economics, he specialized in agricultural economics. Regarded by his peers as a pioneer in quantitative research, Kuznets was appointed a fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association in 1982, the highest honor of his profession.
He was also elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, in 1960.
Born in into a Jewish family in Kiev, Russian Empire, Kuznets moved to the US from Warsaw alone after the death of his mother in 1926 and obtained a Ph.D. in psychometrics from the University of California, Berkeley. His older brother Simon Kuznets was also an economist and won the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.