David J. Gross's Birth Card: The 6 of Diamonds

In the record

David Jonathan Gross (born February 19, 1941) is an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. The birth-card coordinate for February 19 is the 6 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2004 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2004 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction

The 6 of Diamonds coordinate

David J. Gross's birthday maps to the 6 of Diamonds (The Generous Provider). 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 David J. Gross. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You move resources toward other people without erasing your own claim.

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David J. Gross in the public record

He shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics with Frank Wilczek and Hugh David Politzer "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction". Gross is the Chancellor's Chair Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) of the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and was formerly the KITP director and holder of their Frederick W. Gluck Chair in Theoretical Physics. He is also a faculty member in the UCSB Physics Department and is affiliated with the Institute for Quantum Studies at Chapman University in California. He is a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Gross was born in Washington, D.C., in February 1941 to a Jewish family from Austro-Hungary. His grandfather was born in Hungary. His parents were Nora (Faine) and Bertram Myron Gross (1912–1997).

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

Where the record meets the 9 of Clubs

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Visionary thinking and big-picture perspective

Gross is the Chancellor's Chair Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) of the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and was formerly the KITP director and holder of their Frederick W.

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Also on the record

1. Gross studied in high school at the Hebrew University Secondary School in Jerusalem.
2. He received his bachelor's degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in 1962.
3. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1966, under the supervision of Geoffrey Chew.
4. In 1973, Gross, working with his first graduate student, Frank Wilczek, at Princeton University, discovered asymptotic freedom—the primary feature of non-Abelian gauge theories—which led Gross and Wilczek to the formulation of quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the theory of the strong nuclear force.

Other laureates with this card

• Ben R. Mottelson — 1975 Physics
• Carl von Ossietzky — 1935 Peace
• Carlos Saavedra Lamas — 1936 Peace
• Carol W. Greider — 2009 Physiology or Medicine
• Charles J. Pedersen — 1987 Chemistry
• Elinor Ostrom — 2009 Economic Sciences
• J. Robin Warren — 2005 Physiology or Medicine
• James M. Buchanan Jr. — 1986 Economic Sciences
• James P. Allison — 2018 Physiology or Medicine
• Jennifer A. Doudna — 2020 Chemistry
• Johannes Stark — 1919 Physics
• John C. Mather — 2006 Physics
• 15 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is David J. Gross's birth card?

The 6 of Diamonds. February 19 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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