Arthur B. McDonald's Birth Card: The 10 of Hearts

In the record

Arthur Bruce McDonald P.Eng (born August 29, 1943) is a Canadian astrophysicist. The birth-card coordinate for August 29 is the 10 of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2015 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2015 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass

The 10 of Hearts coordinate

Arthur B. McDonald's birthday maps to the 10 of Hearts (The Community Heart). 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 Arthur B. McDonald. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You make room for a lot of people and still keep a self inside the room.

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Arthur B. McDonald in the public record

McDonald is the director of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Collaboration and held the Gordon and Patricia Gray Chair in Particle Astrophysics at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario from 2006 to 2013. He was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Japanese physicist Takaaki Kajita. Arthur McDonald was born on August 29, 1943, in Sydney, Nova Scotia. He graduated with a B.Sc. in physics in 1964 and M.Sc. in physics in 1965 from Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia. He then obtained his Ph.D. in physics in 1969 from the California Institute of Technology. McDonald cited a high school math teacher and his first-year physics professor at Dalhousie as his inspirations for going into the field of physics. Arthur McDonald worked as a research officer at the Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories northwest of Ottawa from 1969 to 1982. He became professor of physics at Princeton University from 1982 to 1989, leaving Princeton to join Queen's University where he was a professor from 1989 to 2013.

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

Where the record meets the Jack 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 Arthur B. McDonald, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.

Ability to inspire intellectual breakthroughs

He was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Japanese physicist Takaaki Kajita.

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

Also on the record

1. McDonald was a visiting scientist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva in 2004.
2. In 2013 McDonald became a professor emeritus of Queen's University in Kingston, Canada.
3. He continues to be active in basic research in Neutrinos and Dark Matter at the SNOLAB underground Laboratory and was a past member of the board of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
4. His visiting positions include CERN, University of Washington (1978), Los Alamos National Laboratory (1981), University of Hawaii (2004, 2009), University of Oxford (2003, 2009), Queen's University (1988).

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• Hermann J. Muller — 1946 Physiology or Medicine
• Hjalmar Branting — 1921 Peace
• Johannes Diderik van der Waals — 1910 Physics
• Klaus Hasselmann — 2021 Physics
• Martin Ryle — 1974 Physics
• Maurice Maeterlinck — 1911 Literature
• Milton Friedman — 1976 Economic Sciences
• Oliver E. Williamson — 2009 Economic Sciences
• 5 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Arthur B. McDonald's birth card?

The 10 of Hearts. August 29 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 Arthur B. McDonald's dates come from?

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