Thomas C. Schelling's Birth Card: The 7 of Diamonds

In the record

Thomas Crombie Schelling (April 14, 1921 – December 13, 2016) was an American economist and professor of foreign policy, national security, nuclear strategy, and arms control at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park. The birth-card coordinate for April 14 is the 7 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2005 Economic Sciences prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2005 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis

The 7 of Diamonds coordinate

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Thomas C. Schelling in the public record

He was also co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute. Schelling was awarded the 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (shared with Robert Aumann) for "having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game theory analysis." Schelling was born on April 14, 1921, in Oakland, California. He graduated from San Diego High School. He received his bachelor's degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1944 and received his PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1951. Schelling served with the Marshall Plan in Europe, the White House, and the Executive Office of the President from 1948 to 1953. He wrote most of his dissertation on national income behavior working at night while in Europe. He left government to join the economics faculty at Yale University. In 1956, "he joined the RAND Corporation as an adjunct fellow, becoming a full-time researcher for a year after leaving Yale, and returning to adjunct status through 2002." In 1958 Schelling was appointed professor of economics at Harvard.

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Thomas Crombie Schelling (April 14, 1921 – December 13, 2016) was an American economist and professor of foreign policy, national security, nuclear strategy, and arms control at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park.

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Also on the record

1. That same year, he "co-founded the Center for International Affairs, which was [later] renamed the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs." In 1969, Schelling joined Harvard's John F.
2. Kennedy School of Government, where he was the Lucius N.
3. Littauer Professor of Political Economy.
4. He was among the "founding fathers" of the "modern" Kennedy School, as he helped to shift the curriculum's emphasis away from administration and more toward leadership.

Other laureates with this card

• Alan MacDiarmid — 2000 Chemistry
• Christian de Duve — 1974 Physiology or Medicine
• Clive W.J. Granger — 2003 Economic Sciences
• Cordell Hull — 1945 Peace
• David M. Lee — 1996 Physics
• David W.C. MacMillan — 2021 Chemistry
• Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin — 1964 Chemistry
• Frederick Reines — 1995 Physics
• Igor Y. Tamm — 1958 Physics
• Johannes V. Jensen — 1944 Literature
• Lord Todd — 1957 Chemistry
• Maria Ressa — 2021 Peace
• 11 more laureates share this card.

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