Albert Fert's Birth Card: The 3 of Spades

In the record

Albert Fert (French: [albɛʁ fɛʁ]; born 7 March 1938) is a French physicist and one of the discoverers of giant magnetoresistance which brought about a breakthrough in gigabyte hard disks. The birth-card coordinate for March 7 is the 3 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2007 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2007 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance

The 3 of Spades coordinate

Albert Fert's birthday maps to the 3 of Spades (The Sorrowful Truth). 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 Fert. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You stay with the hard feeling long enough to learn it, then you let the day continue.

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Albert Fert in the public record

Currently, he is an emeritus professor at Paris-Saclay University in Orsay, scientific director of a joint laboratory (Unité mixte de recherche) between the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (National Scientific Research Centre) and Thales Group, and adjunct professor at Michigan State University. He was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics together with Peter Grünberg. In 1962 Albert Fert graduated from the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he attended courses by the physicists Alfred Kastler and Jacques Friedel. (As an undergraduate he had strong interests in photography and cinema, and was a great admirer of the work of Ingmar Bergman.) After the École Normale Supérieure, Fert attended the University of Grenoble and in 1963 received his Ph.D. (doctorat de troisième cycle) from the University of Paris with a thesis prepared in the fundamental electronic Orsay Faculty of Sciences and in the physical spectrometry laboratory of the University of Grenoble Faculty of Sciences. On his return from military service in 1965, Fert became assistant professor at the Orsay Faculty of Sciences of the University of Paris XI (Université Paris-Sud). Under the direction of Ian Campbell at the Laboratory of Solid Physics he prepared for a doctorate Sc.D. (doctorat des sciences) in Physical Sciences on the electrical transport properties of nickel and iron, which he completed in 1970. He was named professor in 1976. Fert worked as research director for the university's condensed-matter physics laboratory (1970–1995) prior to moving to Unité Mixte de Physique, a laboratory jointly run by the Université Paris-Sud and the technology company Thales. In 1988, Albert Fert at Orsay in France, and Peter Gruenberg at Jülich in Germany, simultaneously and independently discovered giant magnetoresistance (GMR) in magnetic multilayers.

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

Where the record meets the 7 of Clubs

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Penetrating analysis and pattern recognition

Currently, he is an emeritus professor at Paris-Saclay University in Orsay, scientific director of a joint laboratory (Unité mixte de recherche) between the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (National Scientific Research Centre) and Thales Group, and adjunct professor at Michigan State University.

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: professor, research. This line comes from the Venus position of the 3♠'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

1. This discovery is considered to mark the birth of spintronics, a new subfield of electronics that exploits not only the electric charge of the electrons but also their magnetism (associated with their intrinsic angular momentum, or spin).
2. Spintronics has already contributed important applications; the introduction of GMR read heads in hard disks has led to a considerable increase in the density of information storage.
3. Other spintronic properties are exploited in magnetic random access memory (MRAM), which may soon impact computer and phone technology.
4. In 2007, Fert and Prof.

Other laureates with this card

• Alfred Kastler — 1966 Physics
• Benjamin List — 2021 Chemistry
• David Baltimore — 1975 Physiology or Medicine
• George Paget Thomson — 1937 Physics
• Ivar Giaever — 1973 Physics
• J. M. Coetzee — 2003 Literature
• Jacques Monod — 1965 Physiology or Medicine
• Jeffrey C. Hall — 2017 Physiology or Medicine
• Joseph E. Stiglitz — 2001 Economic Sciences
• Julius Wagner-Jauregg — 1927 Physiology or Medicine
• Kailash Satyarthi — 2014 Peace
• Kip S. Thorne — 2017 Physics
• 6 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Albert Fert's birth card?

The 3 of Spades. March 7 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?

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