Burton Richter's Birth Card: The Ace of Diamonds

In the record

Burton Richter (March 22, 1931 – July 18, 2018) was an American physicist. The birth-card coordinate for March 22 is the Ace of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1976 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1976 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind

The Ace of Diamonds coordinate

Burton Richter'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 Burton Richter. 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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Burton Richter in the public record

He led the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) team which co-discovered the J/ψ meson in 1974, alongside the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) team led by Samuel Ting for which they won Nobel Prize for Physics in 1976. This discovery was part of the November Revolution of particle physics. He was the SLAC director from 1984 to 1999. A native of New York City, Richter was born into a Jewish family in Brooklyn, and was raised in the Queens neighborhood of Far Rockaway. His parents were Fanny (Pollack) and Abraham Richter, a textile worker. He graduated from Far Rockaway High School, a school that also produced fellow laureates Baruch Samuel Blumberg and Richard Feynman. He attended Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania, then continued on to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1952 and his PhD in 1956. He then joined the faculty of Stanford University, becoming a full professor in 1967.

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

Where the record meets the Ace of Diamonds

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 Burton Richter, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.

You start a resource in motion because you trust you can make and keep value. You're wired to build, accumulate, and create resources. Money and material success are your native language. You're the one who starts from nothing and builds something.

When eventually resources were secured, Richter led the building of SPEAR, with the support of the U.S.

Paired on shared wording: building, resources.

Also on the record

1. Richter was director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) from 1984 to 1999.
2. He was a senior fellow of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Paul Pigott Professor in the Physical Sciences Emeritus of Stanford University.
3. As a professor at Stanford, Richter designed the SPEAR (Stanford Positron-Electron Asymmetric Ring) particle accelerator with the help of another Stanford physics professor, David Ritson.
4. When eventually resources were secured, Richter led the building of SPEAR, with the support of the U.S.

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
• Brian P. Schmidt — 2011 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 Burton Richter's birth card?

The Ace of Diamonds. March 22 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 Burton Richter's dates come from?

Birth date 1931-03-22 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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