Carl D. Anderson's Birth Card: The 8 of Diamonds

In the record

Carl David Anderson (September 3, 1905 – January 11, 1991) was an American experimental physicist who shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics with Victor Hess for his discovery of the positron, which confirmed the existence of antimatter. The birth-card coordinate for September 3 is the 8 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1936 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1936 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for his discovery of the positron

The 8 of Diamonds coordinate

Carl D. Anderson's birthday maps to the 8 of Diamonds (The Businessman). 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 Carl D. Anderson. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You run the money system in the open and you can explain the call.

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Carl D. Anderson in the public record

Carl David Anderson was born on September 3, 1905, in New York City, to Swedish immigrants, Carl David Anderson Sr. and Emma Adolfina Ajaxson. Anderson received his B.S. in Physics and Engineering in 1927, and his Ph.D. in Physics in 1930, both from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Anderson spent the entirety of his career at Caltech; he was Research Fellow (1930–1933) and Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Physics (1933–1939), before becoming Professor of Physics in 1939, a position he held until his retirement in 1976. In 1946, Anderson married Lorraine Bergman, with whom he had two sons. Anderson died on January 11, 1991, in San Marino, California, at the age of 85. His remains were interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles. He was a Christian. Under the supervision of Robert Millikan, Anderson began investigations into cosmic rays during the course of which he encountered unexpected particle tracks in his (modern versions now commonly referred to as an Anderson) cloud chamber photographs that he correctly interpreted as having been created by a particle with the same mass as the electron, but with opposite electric charge.

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

Where the record meets the 7 of Clubs

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Penetrating analysis and pattern recognition

Anderson spent the entirety of his career at Caltech; he was Research Fellow (1930–1933) and Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Physics (1933–1939), before becoming Professor of Physics in 1939, a position he held until his retirement in 1976.

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Also on the record

1. This discovery, announced in 1932 and later confirmed by others, validated Paul Dirac's theoretical prediction of the existence of the positron.
2. Anderson first detected the particles in cosmic rays.
3. He then produced more conclusive proof by shooting gamma rays produced by the natural radioactive nuclide ThC'' (208Tl) into other materials, resulting in the creation of positron-electron pairs.
4. For this work, Anderson shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics with Victor Hess.

Other laureates with this card

• Aaron Ciechanover — 2004 Chemistry
• Antony Hewish — 1974 Physics
• Bertha von Suttner — 1905 Peace
• Camillo Golgi — 1906 Physiology or Medicine
• Camilo José Cela — 1989 Literature
• Daron Acemoglu — 2024 Economic Sciences
• E. Donnall Thomas — 1990 Physiology or Medicine
• Emil von Behring — 1901 Physiology or Medicine
• Fritz Pregl — 1923 Chemistry
• Guido W. Imbens — 2021 Economic Sciences
• Jimmy Carter — 2002 Peace
• Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich — 1975 Economic Sciences
• 13 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Carl D. Anderson's birth card?

The 8 of Diamonds. September 3 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 Carl D. Anderson's dates come from?

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