David J. Wineland's Birth Card: The Ace of Diamonds

In the record

David Jeffery Wineland (born February 24, 1944) is an American physicist at the Physical Measurement Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The birth-card coordinate for February 24 is the Ace of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2012 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2012 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems

The Ace of Diamonds coordinate

David J. Wineland's birthday maps to the Ace of Diamonds (The Wealth Pioneer). 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. Wineland. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You start a resource in motion because you trust you can make and keep value.

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David J. Wineland in the public record

His most notable contributions include the laser cooling of trapped ions and the use of ions for quantum-computing operations. He received the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Serge Haroche, for "ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems." Wineland was born in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. He lived in Denver until he was three years old, at which time his family moved to Sacramento, California. Wineland graduated from Encina High School in Sacramento in 1961. In Sept. 1961–Dec. 1963, he studied at University of California, Davis. He received his bachelor's degree in physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1965 and his master's and doctoral degrees in physics from Harvard University.

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

Where the record meets the Ace of Hearts

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He lived in Denver until he was three years old, at which time his family moved to Sacramento, California.

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Also on the record

1. He completed his PhD in 1970, supervised by Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr.
2. His doctoral dissertation is titled "The Atomic Deuterium Maser".
3. He then performed postdoctoral research in Hans Dehmelt's group at the University of Washington where he investigated electrons in ion traps.
4. In 1975, he joined the National Bureau of Standards (now called NIST), where he started the ion storage group and is on the physics faculty of the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Other laureates with this card

• Alfred D. Hershey — 1969 Physiology or Medicine
• Andrea Ghez — 2020 Physics
• Arthur H. Compton — 1927 Physics
• Barbara McClintock — 1983 Physiology or Medicine
• Bernard L. Feringa — 2016 Chemistry
• Bertrand Russell — 1950 Literature
• Brian P. Schmidt — 2011 Physics
• Burton Richter — 1976 Physics
• César Milstein — 1984 Physiology or Medicine
• Ei-ichi Negishi — 2010 Chemistry
• Erwin Schrödinger — 1933 Physics
• François Englert — 2013 Physics
• 18 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is David J. Wineland's birth card?

The Ace of Diamonds. February 24 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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