David M. Lee's Birth Card: The 7 of Diamonds

In the record

David Morris Lee (born January 20, 1931) is an American physicist who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics with Robert C. The birth-card coordinate for January 20 is the 7 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1996 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1996 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3

The 7 of Diamonds coordinate

David M. Lee's birthday maps to the 7 of Diamonds (The Skeptical Investor). 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 M. Lee. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You look at worth without reducing it to the account balance.

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David M. Lee in the public record

Richardson and Douglas Osheroff "for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3." Lee is professor emeritus of physics at Cornell University and distinguished professor of physics at Texas A&M University. Lee was born and raised in Rye, New York. His parents, Annette (Franks), a teacher, and Marvin Lee, an electrical engineer, were children of Jewish immigrants from England and Lithuania. He graduated from Harvard University in 1952 and then joined the U.S. Army for 22 months. After being discharged from the army, he obtained a master's degree from the University of Connecticut. In 1955 Lee entered the Ph.D. program at Yale University where he worked under Henry A. Fairbank in the low-temperature physics group, doing experimental research on liquid 3He.

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

Where the record meets the 9 of Hearts

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Integrating compassion with hard-won wisdom

His parents, Annette (Franks), a teacher, and Marvin Lee, an electrical engineer, were children of Jewish immigrants from England and Lithuania.

Paired on relationship and feeling — the domain ♥ governs in this system. Markers in the record: children.

Also on the record

1. After graduating from Yale in 1959, Lee took a job at Cornell University, where he was responsible for setting up the new Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics.
2. Shortly after arriving at Cornell he met his future wife, Dana, then a PhD student in another department; the couple went on to have two sons.
3. Lee moved his laboratory from Cornell to Texas A&M University on November 16, 2009.
4. The work that led to Lee's Nobel Prize was performed in the early 1970s.

Other laureates with this card

• Alan MacDiarmid — 2000 Chemistry
• Christian de Duve — 1974 Physiology or Medicine
• Clive W.J. Granger — 2003 Economic Sciences
• Cordell Hull — 1945 Peace
• David W.C. MacMillan — 2021 Chemistry
• Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin — 1964 Chemistry
• Frederick Reines — 1995 Physics
• Igor Y. Tamm — 1958 Physics
• Johannes V. Jensen — 1944 Literature
• Lord Todd — 1957 Chemistry
• Maria Ressa — 2021 Peace
• Max Delbrück — 1969 Physiology or Medicine
• 11 more laureates share this card.

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What is David M. Lee's birth card?

The 7 of Diamonds. January 20 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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