Daniel C. Tsui's Birth Card: The 10 of Clubs

In the record

Daniel Chee Tsui (Chinese: 崔琦; pinyin: Cuī Qí, born February 28, 1939) is an American physicist. The birth-card coordinate for February 28 is the 10 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1998 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1998 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations

The 10 of Clubs coordinate

Daniel C. Tsui's birthday maps to the 10 of Clubs (The Master Builder). 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 Daniel C. Tsui. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You carry a finished body of knowledge and keep teaching from it.

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Daniel C. Tsui in the public record

He is currently serving as the Professor of Electrical Engineering, emeritus, at Princeton University. Tsui's areas of research include electrical properties of thin films and microstructures of semiconductors and solid-state physics. Tsui won the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics with Robert B. Laughlin and Horst L. Störmer "for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations." Tsui was born into a Chinese agricultural family with two illiterate parents in Fanzhuang (Henan) (范庄), Baofeng, Henan, Republic of China, on February 28, 1939. Born in the midst of Second World War, Tsui described his early childhood memories as being "filled with the years of drought, flood and war which were constantly on the consciousness of the inhabitants of my over-populated village." In 1951, Tsui left for Hong Kong to attend Pui Ching Middle School in Kowloon, beginning his formal education at the level of sixth grade in his second year in Hong Kong. Tsui recalled facing difficulties due to his lack of familiarity with Cantonese dialect used. Upon graduating in 1957, Tsui was admitted to the National Taiwan University Medical School, but due to uncertainties over whether he would be able to return to his family in China, he remained in Hong Kong to enroll in Special Classes Centre, a special two-year government program intended to prepare high school graduates for entrance into the University of Hong Kong.

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

Where the record meets the 10 of Clubs

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 Daniel C. Tsui, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.

Intellectual mastery and deep expertise

Tsui's areas of research include electrical properties of thin films and microstructures of semiconductors and solid-state physics.

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

Also on the record

1. While preparing for the entrance examination to the University of Hong Kong in spring of 1958, Tsui was awarded a full scholarship to attend Augustana College, his church pastor's Lutheran alma mater in the United States.
2. Accepting the scholarship, Tsui arrived at Augustana College just after Labor Day of 1958.
3. After spending three years at Augustana College, Tsui graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1961 as the only student of Chinese descent in his college.
4. Tsui continued his study in physics at the University of Chicago, from where he received his Ph.D. in physics in 1967 after completing a doctoral dissertation, titled "de Haas-van Alphen effect and electronic band structure of nickel", under the supervision of Royal Stark.

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• Betty Williams — 1976 Peace
• Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson — 1903 Literature
• Carl Spitteler — 1919 Literature
• Carl Wieman — 2001 Physics
• Christian Anfinsen — 1972 Chemistry
• Ernst Otto Fischer — 1973 Chemistry
• Eugenio Montale — 1975 Literature
• F. Duncan M. Haldane — 2016 Physics
• 28 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Daniel C. Tsui's birth card?

The 10 of Clubs. February 28 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 Daniel C. Tsui's dates come from?

Birth date 1939-02-28 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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