Alva Myrdal's Birth Card: The 9 of Clubs

In the record

Alva Myrdal ( MUR-dahl, MEER-, Swedish: [ˈǎlːva ˈmy̌ːɖɑːl]; née Reimer; 31 January 1902 – 1 February 1986) was a Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician. The birth-card coordinate for January 31 is the 9 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1982 Peace prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1982 The Nobel Peace Prize — for their work for disarmament and nuclear and weapon-free zones

The 9 of Clubs coordinate

Alva Myrdal's birthday maps to the 9 of Clubs (The Humanitarian Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Alva Myrdal. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You let a used-up framework go and keep the part that still works.

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Alva Myrdal in the public record

She was a prominent leader of the disarmament movement. She, along with Alfonso García Robles, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982. She married Gunnar Myrdal in 1924; he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1974, making them the fourth ever married couple to have won Nobel Prizes, and the first to win independent of each other (versus a shared Nobel Prize by scientist spouses). Alva Myrdal was born in Uppsala and grew up as the first child of a modest family, the daughter of Albert Reimer and Lowa Jonsson. She had four siblings: Ruth (1904–1980), Folke (1906–1977), May (1909–1941) and Stig (1912–1977). Her father was a socialist and modern liberal. During her childhood the family moved around to different places. For example, they were residents of Eskilstuna, Älvsjö, and Stockholm.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Alva Myrdal (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 9 of Clubs

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Visionary thinking and big-picture perspective

She married Gunnar Myrdal in 1924; he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1974, making them the fourth ever married couple to have won Nobel Prizes, and the first to win independent of each other (versus a shared Nobel Prize by scientist spouses).

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: scientist.

Also on the record

1. Her academic studies involved psychology and family sociology.
2. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Stockholm in 1924.
3. In 1929, Myrdal and her husband Gunnar Myrdal had the opportunity to travel to the US as Rockefeller Fellows.
4. Myrdal further deepened her studies in the fields of psychology, education and sociology whilst in the US.

Other laureates with this card

• Alfred Fried — 1911 Peace
• Eisaku Satō — 1974 Peace
• Fritz Haber — 1918 Chemistry
• Guglielmo Marconi — 1909 Physics
• Henry W. Kendall — 1990 Physics
• Herta Müller — 2009 Literature
• Irving Langmuir — 1932 Chemistry
• James Peebles — 2019 Physics
• James Rainwater — 1975 Physics
• Jean-Paul Sartre — 1964 Literature
• John Bardeen — 1956 Physics; 1972 Physics
• John E. Sulston — 2002 Physiology or Medicine
• 18 more laureates share this card.

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What is Alva Myrdal's birth card?

The 9 of Clubs. January 31 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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