In his adult life he co-founded the investment firm Long-Term Capital Management and wrote the seminal Continuous-Time Finance.  
In his autobiography he tells of how as a 16-year old he had a blind date with soap opera actress June Rose, whom he married five years later.  In his adult life he co-founded the investment firm Long-Term Capital Management and wrote the seminal Continuous-Time Finance.  However, he is best-known for his work on the mathematics of derivative securities.  FTP, name this economist who built upon the Black-Scholes formula in his work on option valuation and shared the 1997 Nobel with Myron Scholes.
In his autobiography he tells of how as a 16-year old he had a blind date with soap opera actress June Rose, whom he married five years later.  
Robert C. Merton