(1913-) French novelist. Originally an artist, he abandoned “time structure” and story line in such innovative novels as La Route de Flandres/The Flanders Road 1960, Le Palace 1962, and Histoire 1967 in order to depict the constant flux of experience. His later novels include Les Géorgiques 1981 and L’Acacia 1989. Nobel Prize 1985.
Herbert Alexander, 15.6.1916, US-amerik. Wirtsch.-Wiss.; forscht über Entscheidungsprozesse in Wirtschaftsorganisationen; Nobelpreis 1978.
(1916-) US social scientist. He researched decisionmaking in business corporations, and argued that maximum profit was seldom the chief motive. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics 1978.
He attempted to examine the psychological factors involved in decisionmaking and created the concept of “satisfying behavior” as motivation for some decisions. He also was deeply involved in the effort to create artificial intelligence technology capable of analyzing the factors that influence human problem-solving processes.
Michel, eigtl. François S., 1895, 1975, frz. Filmschauspieler schweiz. Herkunft; bek. durch die Filme J. Renoirs, u. a. »Hafen im Nebel«.