the National Academy of Sciences in 1975. He was also elected Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association, Fellow of the Econometric Society, Fellow of the American Statistical Association, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association. He died on November 4, 1999, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Memorials and tributes The Zvi Griliches Research Data Center was established in his memory at the Samuel Neaman Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology in Israel. The Zvi Griliches Excellence Award was established by the Economics Education and Research Consortium (EERC) in Russia and other former Soviet Union countries. The Zvi Griliches Research Seminar in the Economics of Innovation was held by the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics to promote interactions between academic researchers, innovation policy practitioners, statistical office analysts and PhD students with a general interest in analyzing technological innovation from an economic point of view. In 2001, in the memory of Zvi Griliches, the International Advisory Board of the New Economic School, with the full approval of the entire NES community, decided to establish an annual series of lectures in economics. “The Zvi Griliches Memorial Lectures” are presented by leading scholars and open for everyone. References Diamond, Arthur M., Jr. "Zvi Griliches's Contributions to the Economics of Technology and Growth." Economics of Innovation and New Technology 13, no. 4 (June 2004): 365–97. Notes External links Zvi Griliches' homepage Obituary published in the Harvard Gazette Obituary on the University of California website A Biographical Memoir by Marc Nerlove Zvi Griliches on Diffusion, Lags and Productivity Growth ...Connecting the Dots by Paul A. David In Memoriam: Zvi Griliches, 1930–1999 by Manuel Trajtenberg and Ernst R. Berndt A tree of Zvi Griliches's students, postdocs, coauthors, and their students Marc Nerlove, "Zvi Griliches", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (2001) 1930 births 1999 deaths 20th-century American economists Jewish economists Econometricians Jewish American economists Jewish American scientists Lithuanian emigrants to Mandatory Palestine Soviet emigrants to Israel Lithuanian Jews Israeli emigrants to the United States Harvard University faculty Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni University of Chicago alumni Fellows of the American Statistical Association Fellows of the Econometric Society Presidents of the Econometric Society Presidents of the American Economic Association Distinguished Fellows of the American Economic Association Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences 20th-century American Jews