Akira Yoshino's Birth Card: The 10 of Clubs

In the record

Akira Yoshino (吉野 彰, Yoshino Akira; born 30 January 1948) is a Japanese chemist. The birth-card coordinate for January 30 is the 10 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2019 Chemistry prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2019 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for the development of lithium-ion batteries

The 10 of Clubs coordinate

Akira Yoshino's birthday maps to the 10 of Clubs (The Master 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 Akira Yoshino. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You carry a finished body of knowledge and keep teaching from it.

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Akira Yoshino in the public record

He is a fellow of Asahi Kasei Corporation and a professor at Meijo University in Nagoya. He created the first safe, production-viable lithium-ion battery, which became used widely in cellular phones and notebook computers. Yoshino was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019 alongside M. Stanley Whittingham and John B. Goodenough. Yoshino was born in Suita, Japan, on 30 January 1948. He graduated from Kitano High School in Osaka City (1966). He earned a B.S. in 1970 and an M.S. degree in 1972, both in engineering from Kyoto University, and a Dr.Eng. degree from Osaka University in 2005.

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

Where the record meets the 10 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 Akira Yoshino, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.

Intellectual mastery and deep expertise

He is a fellow of Asahi Kasei Corporation and a professor at Meijo University in Nagoya.

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

Also on the record

1. During his time in elementary school, one of his teachers suggested that he read The Chemical History of a Candle by Michael Faraday, and this sparked a multitude of questions for Yoshino regarding chemistry, a subject he had not been interested in prior to reading the book.
2. During his college years, Yoshino had attended a course taught by Japanese chemist Kenichi Fukui, the first recipient of East Asian ancestry to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
3. Yoshino spent his entire non-academic career at Asahi Kasei Corporation.
4. Immediately after graduating with his master's degree in 1972, Yoshino began working at Asahi Kasei.

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• Carl Wieman — 2001 Physics
• Christian Anfinsen — 1972 Chemistry
• Daniel C. Tsui — 1998 Physics
• Ernst Otto Fischer — 1973 Chemistry
• Eugenio Montale — 1975 Literature
• F. Duncan M. Haldane — 2016 Physics
• 28 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Akira Yoshino's birth card?

The 10 of Clubs. January 30 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 Akira Yoshino's dates come from?

Birth date 1948-01-30 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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