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Childhood in pre-WWII Budapest; studies in leather chemistry, pharmacy, sociology; German invasion, 1944, escape from Communist Hungary to Austria; Australia, 1950-1961: studies in economics, teaching at U. of Queensland, Wayne State University, Yale; Institute of Behavioral Science, Stanford, 1965-1966; professor at UC Berkeley, 1964-1990; reflections on arms control theory, game theory, utilitarian theory; work with Karl Popper, Reinhard Selten, John Nash, and other economists; Nobel Prize award and ceremony, 1994.