C.T.R. Wilson's Birth Card: The Jack of Diamonds

In the record

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (14 February 1869 – 15 November 1959) was a British meteorologist and physicist who shared the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics with Arthur Compton for his invention of the cloud chamber. The birth-card coordinate for February 14 is the Jack of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1927 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1927 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for his method of making the paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour

The Jack of Diamonds coordinate

C.T.R. Wilson's birthday maps to the Jack of Diamonds (The Successful Messenger). 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 C.T.R. Wilson. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You try a new approach to value and you finish enough of it to know if it works.

Live Jack of Diamonds meaning page

C.T.R. Wilson in the public record

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson was born on 14 February 1869 in Glencorse, Scotland, the son of John Wilson, a sheep farmer, and Annie Clark Harper. After his father died in 1873, Wilson moved with his family to Manchester, England. With financial support from his step-brother, Wilson studied biology at Owens College (now the University of Manchester) with the intent of becoming a doctor. He graduated with a B.Sc. in 1887. The following year, he won a scholarship to attend Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he became interested in physics and chemistry. In 1892, he received First Class Honours in both parts of the Natural Sciences Tripos. Wilson became particularly interested in meteorology, and in 1893 he began to study clouds and their properties. Beginning in 1894, he worked for some time at the observatory on Ben Nevis, where he made observations of cloud formation.

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

Where the record meets the Jack 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 C.T.R. Wilson, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.

You try a new approach to value and you finish enough of it to know if it works. You bring new ways of thinking about resources and success. You're the one who shifts how people relate to money. You inspire financial breakthroughs.

Wilson's work "made things visible whose properties had only previously been deduced indirectly." Wilson has been called "almost the last of the great individual experimenters in physics." He used his cloud chamber in various ways

Paired on shared wording: ways, work.

Also on the record

1. He was particularly fascinated by the appearance of glories.
2. He then tried to reproduce this effect on a smaller scale in the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge, expanding humid air within a sealed container.
3. In 1895, Wilson discovered that at a large enough expansion ratio, supersaturated water vapour condensates even without dust which he removed by previous condensations, contrary to the previous research by John Aitken.
4. Under J.

Other laureates with this card

• André Lwoff — 1965 Physiology or Medicine
• Bernardo Houssay — 1947 Physiology or Medicine
• Edwin G. Krebs — 1992 Physiology or Medicine
• Eugene F. Fama — 2013 Economic Sciences
• Ferdinand Braun — 1909 Physics
• Friedrich von Hayek — 1974 Economic Sciences
• Gerard Debreu — 1983 Economic Sciences
• H. Robert Horvitz — 2002 Physiology or Medicine
• Heinrich Rohrer — 1986 Physics
• Henry Dunant — 1901 Peace
• Herbert A. Hauptman — 1985 Chemistry
• Jules A. Hoffmann — 2011 Physiology or Medicine
• 8 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is C.T.R. Wilson's birth card?

The Jack of Diamonds. February 14 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 C.T.R. Wilson's dates come from?

Birth date 1869-02-14 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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