Carl Christ, 1923-2017.

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Carl Christ, an emeritus member and former chair of the NBER's Board of Directors, passed away on April 21 at the age of 93. Christ was first elected to the NBER Board in 1975. He served as the American Economic Association representative to the NBER for many years, and held board leadership roles as vice-chair (1996-99) and chair (1999-2002).

Christ received his undergraduate degree in physics from the University of Chicago in 1943. Immediately following graduation he worked as a junior physicist on the Manhattan Project, the research effort that led to creation of the atomic bomb. After a short postwar stint as a physics instructor at Princeton University, Christ returned to Chicago for graduate studies in economics.

Christ joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins University in 1950, and--with the exception of a brief period...