Albert A. Michelson's Birth Card: The Queen of Hearts

In the record

Albert Abraham Michelson (December 19, 1852 – May 9, 1931) was an American experimental physicist known for his work on measuring the speed of light and especially for the Michelson–Morley experiment. The birth-card coordinate for December 19 is the Queen of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1907 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1907 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid

The Queen of Hearts coordinate

Albert A. Michelson's birthday maps to the Queen of Hearts (The Devoted Nurturer). 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 Albert A. Michelson. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You take care of people from presence, not from scanning for what they might need next.

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Albert A. Michelson in the public record

In 1907, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics, becoming the first American to win the Nobel Prize in a science. He was the founder and the first head of the physics departments of the Case School of Applied Science and the University of Chicago. Albert Abraham Michelson was born on December 19, 1852, in Strelno (now Strzelno, Poland), Prussia, into a Polish-Jewish family. He moved to the United States with his parents in 1855, at the age of 2. He grew up in the mining towns of Murphy's Camp, California, and Virginia City, Nevada, where his father was a merchant. His family was non-religious, and Michelson himself was a lifelong agnostic. He spent his high school years in San Francisco in the home of his aunt, Henriette Levy (née Michelson), who was the mother of author Harriet Lane Levy. His sister was the novelist Miriam Michelson.

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

Where the record meets the 9 of Clubs

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After graduating in 1873 and two years at sea, he returned to the Naval Academy in 1875 to become an instructor in physics and chemistry until 1879, when he was posted to the Nautical Almanac Office, Washington (part of the United States Naval Observatory) to work with Simon Newcomb.

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Also on the record

1. President Ulysses S.
2. Grant awarded Michelson a special appointment to the U.S.
3. Naval Academy in 1869.
4. During his four years as a midshipman at the Academy, he excelled in optics, heat, climatology and technical drawing.

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• Eric Cornell — 2001 Physics
• Eyvind Johnson — 1974 Literature
• Felix Bloch — 1952 Physics
• George D. Snell — 1980 Physiology or Medicine
• Il´ja M. Frank — 1958 Physics
• Isidor Isaac Rabi — 1944 Physics
• Norman F. Ramsey — 1989 Physics
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FAQ

What is Albert A. Michelson's birth card?

The Queen of Hearts. December 19 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 Albert A. Michelson's dates come from?

Birth date 1852-12-19 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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