Christopher A. Sims's Birth Card: The Ace of Clubs

In the record

Christopher Albert Sims (October 21, 1942 – March 14, 2026) was an American econometrician and macroeconomist. The birth-card coordinate for October 21 is the Ace of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2011 Economic Sciences prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2011 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy

The Ace of Clubs coordinate

Christopher A. Sims's birthday maps to the Ace of Clubs (The Creative Pioneer). 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 Christopher A. Sims. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You start a new idea while it is still usable, and you let it meet the world unfinished.

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Christopher A. Sims in the public record

He was the John J.F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics at Princeton University. Together with Thomas Sargent, he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2011. The award cited their "empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy". Sims was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Ruth Bodman (Leiserson), a Democratic politician and daughter of William Morris Leiserson, and Albert Sims, a state department worker. His father was of English and Northern Irish descent, and his mother was of half Estonian Jewish and half English ancestry. His uncle was Yale economist Mark Leiserson. Sims earned his A.B. in mathematics from Harvard University magna cum laude in 1963 and his PhD in economics from Harvard in 1968 under supervision of Hendrik S.

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

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Original thinking and idea generation

Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics at Princeton University.

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Also on the record

1. Houthakker.
2. During the 1963–64 academic year, he was a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley.
3. He served as a faculty member in the department of economics at the University of Minnesota for 20 years (1970–90).
4. He also held teaching positions at Harvard, Yale University, and, from 1999, Princeton where he spent the longest portion of his career.

Other laureates with this card

• Andre Geim — 2010 Physics
• Charles M. Rice — 2020 Physiology or Medicine
• Clifford G. Shull — 1994 Physics
• Demis Hassabis — 2024 Chemistry
• Earl W. Sutherland, Jr. — 1971 Physiology or Medicine
• Frederick C. Robbins — 1954 Physiology or Medicine
• George E. Palade — 1974 Physiology or Medicine
• Giosuè Carducci — 1906 Literature
• Hans Fischer — 1930 Chemistry
• Hans Krebs — 1953 Physiology or Medicine
• Herbert Kroemer — 2000 Physics
• James B. Sumner — 1946 Chemistry
• 14 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Christopher A. Sims's birth card?

The Ace of Clubs. October 21 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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