Brian P. Schmidt's Birth Card: The Ace of Diamonds

In the record

Brian Paul Schmidt (born 24 February 1967) is an American Australian astrophysicist at the Australian National University's Mount Stromlo Observatory and Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics. The birth-card coordinate for February 24 is the Ace of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2011 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2011 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae

The Ace of Diamonds coordinate

Brian P. Schmidt's birthday maps to the Ace of Diamonds (The Wealth Pioneer). 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 Brian P. Schmidt. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You start a resource in motion because you trust you can make and keep value.

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Brian P. Schmidt in the public record

He was the Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University (ANU) from January 2016 to January 2024. He is known for his research in using supernovae as cosmological probes. He previously held a Federation Fellowship and a Laureate Fellowship from the Australian Research Council, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2012. Schmidt shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. Schmidt, an only child, was born in Missoula, Montana, where his father Dana C. Schmidt was a fisheries biologist. When he was 13, his family relocated to Anchorage, Alaska. Schmidt attended Bartlett High School in Anchorage, Alaska, and graduated in 1985.

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

Where the record meets the 3 of Clubs

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Ability to articulate complex ideas clearly

Brian Paul Schmidt (born 24 February 1967) is an American Australian astrophysicist at the Australian National University's Mount Stromlo Observatory and Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics.

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

Also on the record

1. He has said that he wanted to be a meteorologist "since I was about five-years-old [but]...
2. I did some work at the USA National Weather Service up in Anchorage and didn't enjoy it very much.
3. It was less scientific, not as exciting as I thought it would be—there was a lot of routine.
4. But I guess I was just a little naive about what being a meteorologist meant." His decision to study astronomy, which he had seen as "a minor pastime", was made just before he enrolled at university.

Other laureates with this card

• Alfred D. Hershey — 1969 Physiology or Medicine
• Andrea Ghez — 2020 Physics
• Arthur H. Compton — 1927 Physics
• Barbara McClintock — 1983 Physiology or Medicine
• Bernard L. Feringa — 2016 Chemistry
• Bertrand Russell — 1950 Literature
• Burton Richter — 1976 Physics
• César Milstein — 1984 Physiology or Medicine
• David J. Wineland — 2012 Physics
• Ei-ichi Negishi — 2010 Chemistry
• Erwin Schrödinger — 1933 Physics
• François Englert — 2013 Physics
• 18 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Brian P. Schmidt's birth card?

The Ace of Diamonds. February 24 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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Where do Brian P. Schmidt's dates come from?

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