1894-08-28 Oppenhuizen
Grandmother died Wybrigje Tjallings Koopmans born (5 november 1869, Oppenhuizen, Wymbritseradeel - 28 aug 1894, Oppenhuizen ) http://www.stamboomonderzoek.com/jwvdhurk/getperson.php?personID=I18477
1894-08-28 Oppenhuizen
Grandmother died Rigtje Sjoerds Joustra (30 June 1837, Oppenhuizen - 28 Augustus 1894, Oppenhuizen)
1902-09-05 Sneek
Marriage of parents ( 5 September 1902, Sneek) https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939F-S325-L?
1904-04-23 Oppenhuizen
Grandfather died Tjalling Koopmans (6 July 1829, Wymbritseradeel - 23 April 1904, Oppenhuizen) http://www.stamboomonderzoek.com/jwvdhurk/getperson.php?personID=I18460&tree=jwvdhurk
1905-05-26 Sliedrecht
Brother born Jan Koopmans Born (Sliedrecht, 26 May 1905 - Amsterdam, 24 March 1945, Amsterdam) http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Koopmans
1907-08-13 Sliedrecht
Brother born Hendrik Koopmans (13 aug 1907, Sliedrecht - 12 july 1992, Zeist) http://www.stamboomonderzoek.com/jwvdhurk/getperson.php?personID=I18448&tree=jwvdhurk
1910-08-28 's-Graveland
Tjalling Koopmans born (28 Aug 1910, 's-Graveland - 26 Febr 1985, New Haven (Connecticut))
1927-09-01 Utrecht
Started study of Math and Theoretical Physics (since 1930) in Utrecht at age 17 http://www.uu.nl/onderzoek/prijzen-en-onderscheidingen/nobelprijswinnaars/tjalling-charles-koopmans
1933-06-15 ca time
Met Tinbergen. Moved from Utrecht to Amsterdam http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/1975/koopmans-bio.html
1933-07-07 Utrecht
Cum laude graduation as a physicist (Utrecht, 7 july 1933 ) http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/bwn1880-2000/lemmata/bwn4/koopman
1934-02-15 Early 1934
Ueber die Zuordaung von Wellenfunktionen und Eigenwerten zu den einzelnen Elektronen eines Atoms (Physica 1, no. 2, 1934) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koopmans'_theorem
1935-07-30 Vienna, Austria
Son-in-law Joseph Frankel (biology educator) born http://prabook.org/web/person-view.html?profileId=242234
1936-10-22 Amersfoort
Marriage (Trijntje “Truus” Wanningen, 1912, Amersfoort – 2002). Children: Anne and Helen, and son Henry. http://www.hetutrechtsarchief.nl/collectie/archiefbank/archieftoegangen/zoekresultaat?mivast=39&miadt=39&miaet=54&micode=463-560-04&minr=29382088&miview=ldt
1936-11-26 Leiden
Dissertation: Linear regression analysis of economic time series (26 Nov 1936, Leiden) http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/bwn1880-2000/lemmata/bwn4/koopman
1938-11-01 year only
Moved late 1938 to Geneve to replace Tinbergen
1940-04-09 Norway
German attack on Norway: decided to emigrate to the USA.,
1940-04-15 ca time
Daugther Anne Wijtske Koopmans (Frankel), a zoologist was born prematurely (April 1940, Geneva, CH)
1940-06-04

Emigration: Travel to Genua (4 June 1940, 9 am), changed it to Bordeaux 12 noon. http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/koopmans-tjalling-c.pdf
1940-06-08 La Verdon
Sailed 8 June 1940 from La Verdon France to New York(Ellis Island) with the S.S. Washington https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:24L9-7JS
1940-07-11 Rouses Point, NY
Arrived wifth wife and daugther Anne in NY on 11 July 1940 https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9PQQ-CFGL
1942-07-01 ca time
“Serial Correlation and Quadratic Forms in Normal Variables” (Ann. Math. Statist. 13 (1942), no. 1, 14–33.) https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aoms/1177731639
1942-07-01 ca time
In 1942 the family left Philadelphia for Washington (stayed 2 years)
1942-08-15 ca time
Exchange Ratios Between Cargos in Various Routes (1942) http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/1975/koopmans-bio.html
1944-01-28 Washington DC
Son Henri W. Koopmans born (28 January 1944, Washington DC - 17 April 2010, Calgary) http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/calgaryherald/obituary.aspx?n=henry-koopmans&pid=142028012
1945-03-12 Weteringplantsoen
Brother Jan Koopmans shot in head (Sliedrecht, 26 May 1905 - Amsterdam, 24 March 1945) on 12 March 1945. http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Koopmans
1945-03-24 Amsterdam
Brother Jan Koopmans died (Sliedrecht, 26 May 1905 - Amsterdam, 24 March 1945) ) http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Koopmans
1946-03-20 Chicago, Illinois
Asked for naturalisation in the United States (20 March 1946) https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9PQQ-CFGL
1947-08-03

'Measurement without theory' (in Review of Economic Statistics 29 (1947) 3 (aug.) 161-172) http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/bwn1880-2000/lemmata/bwn4/koopman
1947-09-15 ca time
International Statistical Conference in Washington in September 1947 http://www.roiw.org/1/1.pdf
1948-06-01 ca time
Became USA citzen and changed name Tjalling Charles Koopmans
1948-07-15

Followed Jacob Marschak as director of the Cowles Commision July 1948 Economic Methodology: A Historical Introduction
1950-04-28 Utrecht
Became external KNAW member (Dutch Academy of science) 28 April 1950 http://www.dwc.knaw.nl/biografie/pmknaw/?pagetype=authorDetail&aId=PE00001356
1950-06-01 Chicago, ??
Cowles Commission Monograph No. 10, in 1950. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_Econometric_Society
1950-08-04 New York
Travel abroad with family from NYC on 4 Aug 1950 to Europe with ship Straheden http://www.ancestry.com
1952-05-22 Hilversum 12h30 PM
Mother died Wijtske van der Zee (12 Febr 1878 11h30 AM, Sneek, - 22 May 1952, 12h30 PM Hilversum) https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939F-WK3V-R
1955-07-01 New Haven, CT
Tjalling C. Koopmans became Professor of Economics at Yale (July 1 1955). Implied a move from Chicago to New Haven, CT. http://cowles.yale.edu/move-yale
1959-10-19 Hilversum 8 PM
Father died Sjoerd Koopmans (22 June 1877, Oppenhuizen, Wymbritseradeel – 19 Oct 1959 8 PM, Hilversum) http://www.stamboomonderzoek.com/jwvdhurk/getperson.php?personID=I18448&tree=jwvdhurk
1961-12-21 Hambden, New Haven
Daugther Anne Wijtske Koopmans married December 21, 1961 Joseph Frankel (July 30, 1935 in Vienna, Austria). Children– Rebecca Eva, Martin David. http://prabook.org/web/person-view.html?profileId=242234
1963-12-15 ca time
Koopmans, Tjalling (December 1963). "On the Concept of Optimal Economic Growth" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsey%E2%80%93Cass%E2%80%93Koopmans_model
1965-02-13 Hambden, New Haven
Daugther Helen J. Koopmans (1946) married Henry M Weinert on 13 February 1965 in Hambden, New Haven http://www.ancestry.com
1967-02-02 Leuven
Received honorary doctorate from Catholic University Leuven (Belgium) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TjallingKoopmans1967.jpg
1968-09-28 San Diego city
Son Henri W. Koopmans married on 28 Sept 1968 Marilynn J. Penner in San Diego city http://www.ancestry.com
1970-07-08 Boston, MA
Grandson Jason Corey Weinert born (8 July 1970 Boston, MA - 29 Oct 2015) http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bozemandailychronicle/obituary.aspx?pid=176338042
1972-12-15 ca time
On the definition and computation of a capital stock invariant under optimization Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 5, Issue 3, December 1972, Pages 487-523
1975-10-15 ca time
October 1975 when his Nobel Prize was announced
1975-12-11 Stockholm
Nobel Memorial Lecture: Concepts of optimality and their uses. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/1975/koopmans-lecture.pdf
1977-12-29

Elected as American Economic Association President in 1978 (letter written Dec 9, 1977) http://www.jstor.org/stable/1816737?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
1984-11-15 ca time
Tjalling suffered a series of cerebral strokes in the last months of 1984.
1985-02-26 New Haven (Connecticut)
Tjalling Koopmans died (28 Aug 1910, 's-Graveland - 26 Febr 1985, New Haven (Connecticut) https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J23B-15S
1992-07-12 Zeist
Brother died Hendrik Koopmans (13 aug 1907, Sliedrecht - 12 july 1992, Zeist) http://www.stamboomonderzoek.com/jwvdhurk/getperson.php?personID=I18448&tree=jwvdhurk
2010-04-17 Calgary
Son died Henri W. Koopmans (28 January 1944, Washington DC - 17 April 2010, Rosedale Hospice Calgary) http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/calgaryherald/obituary.aspx?n=henry-koopmans&pid=142028012
2015-05-06 's-Graveland
Late Recognition in Holland http://www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/eindelijk-erkenning-voor-nobelprijswinnaar-koopmans~a4004748/




























Retired as Alfred Cowles Professor of Economics at Yale (1 July 1955-1980). But other sources mention different years https://www.informs.org/About-INFORMS/History-and-Traditions/Biographical-Profiles/Koopmans-Tjalling-C








Grandfather died Jan Heijes van der Zee (10 February 1843, Sneek - ) http://www.famzandhuis.nl/familieboek/van_der_VEEN.htm



Grandmother died Hendrikje Everts van der Veen (30 dec 1841, Heerenveen - ?) http://www.famzandhuis.nl/familieboek/van_der_VEEN.htm








Awarded a study stipend by the St. Geertruidsleen of Wijmbritseradeel at age 14 http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/1975/koopmans-bio.html
Year 1969

Elected as member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/53675.html

New York
1940 end research assistant at Princeton and, simultaneously, taught a course in statistics at NYU.



Koopmans organized a Cowles Commission Conference (early 1945)



Cowles Commission Monograph No. 13 in 1951.



Three Essays on the State of Economic Science, published in 1957



Portrait http://storage.lib.uchicago.edu/ucpa/series1/derivatives_series1/apf1-03546r.jpg








Jan Tinbergen http://www.dwc.knaw.nl/DL/levensberichten/PE00003779.pdf



Biographical Essay, by Herbert E. Scarf, 1992 http://cowles.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/koopmans/tck-bib.pdf



Daughter: Helen Joan Koopmans (virgo, 1945, Chicago, Illinois) married Henry Weinert, later Edouard Sandoz http://www.intelius.com/people/Helen-Weinert-sandoz/0cw04xg830g?hasSentRedir=1&refer=4918