Nobel laureate · birth-card coordinate
Robert B. Wilson's Birth Card: The 3 of Diamonds
The Success Communicator
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
Robert Butler "Bob" Wilson, Jr. (born May 16, 1937) is an American economist who is the Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Emeritus at Stanford University. The birth-card coordinate for May 16 is the 3 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 Paul R. Milgrom (A♦). 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 3 of Diamonds coordinate
Robert B. Wilson's birthday maps to the 3 of Diamonds (The Success Communicator). 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 Robert B. Wilson. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You keep more than one path alive without letting any of them stay imaginary.
Robert B. Wilson in the public record
He was jointly awarded the 2020 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, together with his Stanford colleague and former student Paul R. Milgrom, "for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats". Two more of his students, Alvin E. Roth and Bengt Holmström, are also Nobel Laureates in their own right. Wilson is known for his contributions to management science and business economics. His doctoral thesis introduced sequential quadratic programming, which became a leading iterative method for nonlinear programming. With other mathematical economists at Stanford, he helped to reformulate the economics of industrial organization and organization theory using non-cooperative game theory. His research on nonlinear pricing has influenced policies for large firms, particularly in the energy industry, especially electricity.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Robert B. Wilson (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 3 of Diamonds
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Cards in Robert B. Wilson's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 3♦ — Birth Card: The Success Communicator
- Q♦ — Karma — Environment: The Prosperous Nurturer
- 6♥ — Karma — Displacement: The Devoted Caregiver
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 7♦ — Life Spread — Mars
- 5♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- J♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 9♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 9♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 2♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- K♥ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
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 sales and persuasion ability
Robert Butler "Bob" Wilson, Jr. (born May 16, 1937) is an American economist who is the Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Emeritus at Stanford University.
Paired on value and commerce — the domain ♦ governs in this system. Markers in the record: economist.
Other laureates with this card
- Alfonso García Robles — 1982 Peace
- Arne Tiselius — 1948 Chemistry
- Aziz Sancar — 2015 Chemistry
- Bengt Holmström — 2016 Economic Sciences
- Charles K. Kao — 2009 Physics
- Dan Shechtman — 2011 Chemistry
- David Julius — 2021 Physiology or Medicine
- Derek Barton — 1969 Chemistry
- Elias James Corey — 1990 Chemistry
- Ernest T.S. Walton — 1951 Physics
- Erwin Neher — 1991 Physiology or Medicine
- Frédéric Mistral — 1904 Literature
- 20 more laureates share this card.
FAQ
- What is Robert B. Wilson's birth card?
- The 3 of Diamonds. May 16 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 Robert B. Wilson's dates come from?
- Birth date 1937-05-16 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 996) + Wikidata CC0 (Q377265) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Robert B. Wilson). Birth date 1937-05-16 is the Nobel day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).