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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Russia in 1905, Leontief left the Soviet Union and landed in America, where he built input–output analysis: a method for tracking how industries depend on each other and how a change in one sends waves through the rest. The work earned him the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1973. Four of his doctoral students later won the same prize — Paul Samuelson in 1970, Robert Solow in 1987, Vernon L. Smith in 2002, Thomas Schelling in 2005. He died in February 1999.