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Clinton Davisson's Birth Card: The King of Hearts

1937 Physics

Born October 22, 1881

Died February 1, 1958

The Compassionate King

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In the record

Clinton Joseph Davisson (October 22, 1881 – February 1, 1958) was an American experimental physicist who shared the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics with George Paget Thomson "for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals." Clinton Joseph Davisson was born on October 22, 1881, in Bloomington, Illinois, the son of Joseph Davisson, an artisan from Ohio, and Mary Calvert, a schoolteacher from Pennsylvania. The birth-card coordinate for October 22 is the King of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1937 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

1937 — The Nobel Prize in Physics

“for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals”

Prize motivation, NobelPrize.org

Shared with George Paget Thomson (3♠). The award was divided; this laureate's listed portion is 1/2.

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The King of Hearts coordinate

Clinton Davisson's birthday maps to the King of Hearts (The Compassionate King). 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 Clinton Davisson. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You hold emotional authority without hiding behind it.

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Clinton Davisson in the public record

Davisson graduated from Bloomington High School in 1902, and entered the University of Chicago on scholarship. Upon the recommendation of Robert Millikan, he was hired by Princeton University in 1905 as an instructor in physics. He completed the requirements for his B.S. from Chicago in 1908, mainly by working in the summers. While teaching at Princeton, he did doctoral research under Owen Richardson, receiving his Ph.D. in 1911 with a thesis titled On The Thermal Emission of Positive Ions From Alkaline Earth Salts. After graduating, Davisson became an instructor in the Department of Physics at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University). In 1917, when the U.S. entered World War I, he took up war-related research in the Engineering Department of the Western Electric Company. Davisson continued to work at Western Electric until 1925, when he joined the Technical Staff of the newly-founded Bell Telephone Laboratories. He retired from Bell Labs in 1946.

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

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Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.

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2♣ — Karma — Displacement, fixed to the K♥, from the published 2 of Clubs meaning

Clinton Joseph Davisson (October 22, 1881 – February 1, 1958) was an American experimental physicist who shared the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics with George Paget Thomson "for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals." Clinton Joseph Davisson was born on October 22, 1881, in Bloomington, Illinois, the son of Joseph Davisson, an artisan from Ohio, and Mary Calvert, a schoolteacher from Pennsylvania.

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

Also on the record

  1. The following year, he accepted a visiting professorship at the University of Virginia.
  2. Davisson died on February 1, 1958, in Charlottesville, Virginia, at the age of 76.
  3. Davisson crater on the far side of the Moon was named after him in 1970.
  4. Diffraction is a characteristic effect when a wave is incident upon an aperture or a grating, and is closely associated with the meaning of wave motion itself.

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FAQ

What is Clinton Davisson's birth card?
The King of Hearts. October 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 Clinton Davisson's dates come from?
Birth date 1881-10-22 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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Sources: Nobel Prize API v2.1 (laureate 44) + Wikidata CC0 (Q133222) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Clinton Davisson). Birth date 1881-10-22 is the Nobel day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).