Editing Thomas Schelling (section)

==Honors and awards==
In 1977, Schelling received The Frank E. Seidman Distinguished Award in Political Economy.

In 1993, he was awarded the [[NAS Award for Behavior Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nuclear War|Award for Behavior Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nuclear War]] from the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]].<ref name="NASNuclear">{{cite web |title=NAS Award for Behavior Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nuclear War |url=http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_behavioral_research |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604040753/http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_behavioral_research |archive-date=2011-06-04 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences |access-date=February 16, 2011}}</ref>

He received honorary doctorates from [[Erasmus University Rotterdam]] in 2003, [[Yale University]] in 2009, and RAND Graduate School of Public Analysis, as well as an honorary degree from the [[University of Manchester]] in 2010.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/article/?id=6276|title=Nobel prize winner delivers SCI annual lecture|website=The University of Manchester}}</ref><ref name=":4" /><ref name=":3" />

He was awarded the 2005 [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]], along with [[Robert Aumann]], for "having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through [[Game theory|game-theory]] analysis."<ref name=":0" />

In 2008 he was the Witten Lecturer at the [[Witten/Herdecke University]] as the awardee of the Witten Lectures in Economics and Philosophy.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Witten Lectures in Economics and Philosophy |date=2008 |title=2. Witten Lectures in Economics and Philosophy |url=http://wittenlectures.org/Home.html |access-date=19 August 2024}}</ref>

===Personal life and death ===
Schelling was married to Corinne Tigay Saposs from 1947 to 1991, with whom he had four sons. Later in 1991 he married Alice M. Coleman, who brought two sons to the marriage; they became his stepsons.<ref>{{cite web |title=Thomas C. Schelling |url=http://www.nndb.com/people/332/000116981/ |work=The Notable Names Database |year=2008 |access-date=2008-11-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/11/business/american-and-israeli-share-nobel-prize-in-economics.html|title=American and Israeli Share Nobel Prize in Economics|last=Uchitelle|first=Louis|date=2005-10-11|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-11-16|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

Schelling died on December 13, 2016, in [[Bethesda, Maryland]], from complications following a hip fracture at the age of 95.<ref name=":1" />

Schelling's family auctioned his Nobel award medal, fetching $187,000. They donated this money to the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]], an American 501 nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation. Alice Schelling said her late husband had credited ''[[Smoky the Cowhorse]]'' by [[Will James (artist)|Will James]], the winner of the [[Newbery Medal]] in 1927, as the most influential book he had read.<ref>Levin, Sala (June 8, 2018). [http://terp.umd.edu/a-golden-opportunity/#.Wx-RbtMvzXS Family of Late UMD Professor Auctions Nobel Medal to Fight Hate]. http://terp.umd.edu/</ref>