Bertram N. Brockhouse's Birth Card: The King of Clubs

In the record

Bertram Neville Brockhouse, (July 15, 1918 – October 13, 2003) was a Canadian physicist. The birth-card coordinate for July 15 is the King of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1994 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1994 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for the development of neutron spectroscopy

The King of Clubs coordinate

Bertram N. Brockhouse's birthday maps to the King of Clubs (The Master Leader). 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 Bertram N. Brockhouse. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You make the intellectual call in the open and you can revise it.

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Bertram N. Brockhouse in the public record

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics (1994, shared with Clifford Shull) "for pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for studies of condensed matter", in particular "for the development of neutron spectroscopy". Brockhouse was born in Lethbridge, Alberta, to a family of English descent. He was a graduate of the University of British Columbia (BA, 1947) and the University of Toronto (MA, 1948; Ph.D, 1950). From 1950 to 1962, Brockhouse carried out research at Atomic Energy of Canada's Chalk River Nuclear Laboratory. Here he was joined by P. K. Iyengar, who is treated as the father of India's nuclear program. In 1962, he became a professor at McMaster University in Canada, where he remained until his retirement in 1984.

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

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He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics (1994, shared with Clifford Shull) "for pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for studies of condensed matter", in particular "for the development of neutron spectroscopy".

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

Also on the record

1. Brockhouse died on October 13, 2003, in Hamilton, Ontario, aged 85.
2. Brockhouse was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1965.
3. In 1982, Brockhouse was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 1995.
4. Brockhouse shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics with American Clifford Shull of MIT for developing neutron scattering techniques for studying condensed matter.

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• Carl Cori — 1947 Physiology or Medicine
• Cecil Powell — 1950 Physics
• Daniel Bovet — 1957 Physiology or Medicine
• Emil Fischer — 1902 Chemistry
• Eric Kandel — 2000 Physiology or Medicine
• François Jacob — 1965 Physiology or Medicine
• Frederick Sanger — 1958 Chemistry; 1980 Chemistry
• Fredrik Bajer — 1908 Peace
• 28 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Bertram N. Brockhouse's birth card?

The King of Clubs. July 15 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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