Many have heard of Alan Turing, the mathematician and logician who invented modern computing in 1935. They know that Turing, the cryptologist who cracked the Nazi Enigma code, helped win World War II.
Nobel laureate Harry M. Markowitz, the economist whose work in modern portfolio theory gave birth to the field of quantitative finance, has died at age 95. Mr. Markowitz, who died June 22, won the ...