Peter A. Diamond's Birth Card: The 5 of Clubs

In the record

Peter Arthur Diamond (born April 29, 1940) is an American economist known for his analysis of U.S. The birth-card coordinate for April 29 is the 5 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2010 Economic Sciences prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2010 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — for their analysis of markets with search frictions

The 5 of Clubs coordinate

Peter A. Diamond's birthday maps to the 5 of Clubs (The Dynamic Innovator). 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 Peter A. Diamond. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You pressure-test an idea in public and let the better one win.

Live 5 of Clubs meaning page

Peter A. Diamond in the public record

Social Security policy and his work as an advisor to the Advisory Council on Social Security in the late 1980s and 1990s. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2010, along with Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides. He is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. On June 6, 2011, he withdrew his nomination to serve on the Federal Reserve's board of governors, citing intractable Republican opposition for 14 months. Diamond was born to a Jewish family in New York City. His grandparents immigrated to the U.S. at the turn of the 20th century.

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

Where the record meets the 5 of Clubs

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Peter A. Diamond, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.

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He is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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

Also on the record

1. His mother's parents and six older siblings came from Poland.
2. His father's parents met in New York, she came from Russia and he came from Romania.
3. His parents, both born in 1908, grew up in New York City and never lived outside the metropolitan area.
4. Both finished high school and went to work, his father studying at Brooklyn Law School at night while selling shoes during the day.

Other laureates with this card

• Al Gore — 2007 Peace
• Alexei Abrikosov — 2003 Physics
• August Krogh — 1920 Physiology or Medicine
• Ben Bernanke — 2022 Economic Sciences
• Carlo Rubbia — 1984 Physics
• Donna Strickland — 2018 Physics
• Gerhart Hauptmann — 1912 Literature
• Harold C. Urey — 1934 Chemistry
• Henry Kissinger — 1973 Peace
• J. Hans D. Jensen — 1963 Physics
• John Cockcroft — 1951 Physics
• John L. Hall — 2005 Physics
• 12 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Peter A. Diamond's birth card?

The 5 of Clubs. April 29 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 Peter A. Diamond's dates come from?

Birth date 1940-04-29 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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