ABSTRACT
Nathan Rosenberg is Fairleigh S. Dickinson, Jr., Professor of Public Policy, Emeritus, at Stanford University, Stanford, California. He was born in Passaic, New Jersey in 1927 and was educated at Rutgers University (A.B., 1950) and at the University of Wisconsin (Ph.D., 1955), including two years at Oxford University (1952-4). Before he settled at Stanford in 1974 he taught at Indiana University (1955-7), the University of Pennsylvania (1957-61), Purdue University (1961-7), Harvard University (1967-9), and the University of Wisconsin (1969-74). In 1981 he was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. A conference in Rosenberg’s honor was held at Stanford in 1992, with the proceedings published as a special issue of Research Policy (Mowery, Nelson & Steinmueller, eds 1994).
