Nobel laureate · birth-card coordinate
Paul R. Milgrom's Birth Card: The Ace of Diamonds
The Wealth Pioneer
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Nobel Prize.
In the record
Paul Robert Milgrom (born April 20, 1948) is an American economist. The birth-card coordinate for April 20 is the Ace of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2020 Economic Sciences prize.
Nobel Prize record
- 2020 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats
2020 — The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
“for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats”
Shared with Robert B. Wilson (3♦). The award was divided; this laureate's listed portion is 1/2.
93 other Economic Sciences laureates in this set carry a birth-card coordinate.
The Ace of Diamonds coordinate
Paul R. Milgrom's birthday maps to the Ace of Diamonds (The Wealth 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 Paul R. Milgrom. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You start a resource in motion because you trust you can make and keep value.
Paul R. Milgrom in the public record
He is the Shirley and Leonard Ely Professor of Humanities and Sciences at the Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences, a position he has held since 1987. He is a professor in the Stanford School of Engineering as well and a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Research. Milgrom is an expert in game theory, specifically auction theory and pricing strategies. He is the winner of the 2020 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, together with Robert B. Wilson, "for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats". He is the co-creator of the no-trade theorem with Nancy Stokey. He is the co-founder of several companies, the most recent of which, Auctionomics, provides software and services for commercial auctions and exchanges. Milgrom and his thesis advisor Wilson designed the auction protocol the FCC uses to determine which phone company gets what cellular frequencies.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Paul Milgrom (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the Ace of Diamonds
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Cards in Paul R. Milgrom's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- A♦ — Birth Card: The Wealth Pioneer
- A♥ — Karma — Environment: The Emotional Pioneer
- 2♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Financial Partner
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- Q♦ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 3♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 9♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 7♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- Q♠ — Life Spread — Pluto
- J♣ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 3♣ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Creative Communicator
- 5♥ — Planetary Ruling Card (second ruler): The Restless Heart
- K♦ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Wealthy King
- 5♦ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Dynamic Entrepreneur
- 9♦ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Universal Provider
- 7♠ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Questioning Mind
- 2♣ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Collaborative Builder
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
Natural resource building and accumulation
Paul Robert Milgrom (born April 20, 1948) is an American economist.
Paired on value and commerce — the domain ♦ governs in this system. Markers in the record: economist.
Also on the record
- Milgrom also led the team that designed the broadcast incentive auction between 2016 and 2017, which was a two-sided auction to reallocate radio frequencies from TV broadcast to wireless broadband uses.
- In 2024, Milgrom's firm, Auctionomics, won a technical Emmy Award for their contributions to spectrum auction design.
Other laureates with this card
- Alfred D. Hershey — 1969 Physiology or Medicine
- Andrea Ghez — 2020 Physics
- Arthur H. Compton — 1927 Physics
- Barbara McClintock — 1983 Physiology or Medicine
- Bernard L. Feringa — 2016 Chemistry
- Bertrand Russell — 1950 Literature
- Brian P. Schmidt — 2011 Physics
- Burton Richter — 1976 Physics
- César Milstein — 1984 Physiology or Medicine
- David J. Wineland — 2012 Physics
- Ei-ichi Negishi — 2010 Chemistry
- Erwin Schrödinger — 1933 Physics
- 18 more laureates share this card.
FAQ
- What is Paul R. Milgrom's birth card?
- The Ace of Diamonds. April 20 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict a Nobel Prize?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast prizes, character, or fate.
- Where do Paul R. Milgrom's dates come from?
- Birth date 1948-04-20 is the Nobel Prize API v2.1 day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Nobel dates and Nobel↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: Nobel Prize API v2.1 (laureate 995) + Wikidata CC0 (Q1359990) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Paul Milgrom). Birth date 1948-04-20 is the Nobel day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).