Nobel laureate · birth-card coordinate
Adam G. Riess's Birth Card: The 2 of Clubs
The Collaborative Builder
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
Adam Guy Riess (born December 16, 1969) is an American astrophysicist and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute. The birth-card coordinate for December 16 is the 2 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2011 Physics prize.
Nobel Prize record
- 2011 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae
2011 — The Nobel Prize in Physics
“for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae”
Shared with Brian P. Schmidt (A♦). The award was divided; this laureate's listed portion is 1/4.
222 other Physics laureates in this set carry a birth-card coordinate.
The 2 of Clubs coordinate
Adam G. Riess's birthday maps to the 2 of Clubs (The Collaborative Builder). 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 Adam G. Riess. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You think with someone else and still leave the conversation with a position of your own.
Adam G. Riess in the public record
He is known for his research in using supernovae as cosmological probes. Riess shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Brian Schmidt for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. Riess has been at the center of a growing scientific debate about the so-called “Hubble tension” — a discrepancy between measurements of the universe’s expansion rate using nearby supernovae, and measurements inferred from the cosmic microwave background radiation using the Standard Model of cosmology. Riess’s data has prompted questions and further testing to determine if the Standard Model still adequately describes the universe.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Adam Riess (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 2 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 Adam G. Riess, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.
Cards in Adam G. Riess's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 2♣ — Birth Card: The Collaborative Builder
- K♥ — Karma — Environment: The Compassionate King
- A♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Truth Pioneer
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- K♣ — Life Spread — Mercury
- J♦ — Life Spread — Venus
- 4♥ — Life Spread — Mars
- 2♠ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 8♥ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 6♣ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 6♠ — Life Spread — Pluto
- Q♥ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 4♦ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Financial Foundation Builder
- 5♥ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Restless Heart
- 5♠ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Restless Mind
- 10♣ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Master Builder
- 8♦ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Businessman
- K♠ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Master of Thought
- 3♥ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Creative Heart
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 partnership and team-building ability
Adam Guy Riess (born December 16, 1969) is an American astrophysicist and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute.
Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: professor.
Other laureates with this card
- Albert Claude — 1974 Physiology or Medicine
- Alexis Carrel — 1912 Physiology or Medicine
- Auguste Beernaert — 1909 Peace
- Brian Kobilka — 2012 Chemistry
- Charles B. Huggins — 1966 Physiology or Medicine
- Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard — 1995 Physiology or Medicine
- Edmund S. Phelps — 2006 Economic Sciences
- Elfriede Jelinek — 2004 Literature
- F. Sherwood Rowland — 1995 Chemistry
- George Bernard Shaw — 1925 Literature
- George Wald — 1967 Physiology or Medicine
- Hannes Alfvén — 1970 Physics
- 11 more laureates share this card.
FAQ
- What is Adam G. Riess's birth card?
- The 2 of Clubs. December 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 Adam G. Riess's dates come from?
- Birth date 1969-12-16 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 866) + Wikidata CC0 (Q106454) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Adam Riess). Birth date 1969-12-16 is the Nobel day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).