Didier Queloz's Birth Card: The 2 of Diamonds

In the record

Didier Patrick Queloz (born 23 February 1966) is a Swiss astronomer. The birth-card coordinate for February 23 is the 2 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2019 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2019 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star

The 2 of Diamonds coordinate

Didier Queloz's birthday maps to the 2 of Diamonds (The Financial Partner). 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 Didier Queloz. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You name the exchange out loud and keep it fair for both sides.

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Didier Queloz in the public record

He is the Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, where he is also a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, as well as a professor of physics at ETH Zurich. Together with Michel Mayor in 1995, he discovered 51 Pegasi b, the first extrasolar planet orbiting a Sun-like star, 51 Pegasi. For this discovery, he shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics with Mayor and Jim Peebles. In 2022, he is the founding director of the Center for the Origin and Prevalence of Life at ETH Zurich. Queloz was born in Switzerland, on 23 February 1966. Queloz studied at the University of Geneva where he subsequently obtained a MSc degree in physics in 1990, a DEA in Astronomy and Astrophysics in 1992, and a PhD degree in 1995 with Swiss astrophysicist Michel Mayor as his doctoral advisor. The Daily Telegraph reports him as saying that, "Science inherited a lot from religions". Didier Queloz is at the origin of the "exoplanet revolution" in astrophysics when as part of his PhD at the University of Geneva, with his supervisor, they discovered the first exoplanet around a main sequence star.

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

Where the record meets the 6 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 Didier Queloz, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.

Natural teaching and mentoring ability

He is the Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, where he is also a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, as well as a professor of physics at ETH Zurich.

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

Also on the record

1. In 1995 with Michel Mayor announced a giant planet orbiting the star 51 Pegasi; the planet was identified as 51 Pegasi b and determined to be of a Hot Jupiter.
2. The planet was detected by the measurement of small periodic changes in stellar radial velocity produced by the orbiting planet.
3. Detecting this small variability by the Doppler effect had been possible thanks to the development of a new type of spectrograph, ELODIE, installed at the Haute-Provence Observatory, combined creative approach to measuring precise stellar radial velocity.
4. For this achievement, they were awarded half of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star" resulting in "contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth's place in the cosmos." This seminal discovery has spawned a revolution in astronomy and kickstarted the research field of exoplanets.

Other laureates with this card

• Aaron Klug — 1982 Chemistry
• Alain Aspect — 2022 Physics
• Allan M. Cormack — 1979 Physiology or Medicine
• Arvid Carlsson — 2000 Physiology or Medicine
• Christiaan Eijkman — 1929 Physiology or Medicine
• D. Carleton Gajdusek — 1976 Physiology or Medicine
• Desmond Tutu — 1984 Peace
• Douglass C. North — 1993 Economic Sciences
• Ferenc Krausz — 2023 Physics
• Glenn T. Seaborg — 1951 Chemistry
• Hans G. Dehmelt — 1989 Physics
• Herbert Simon — 1978 Economic Sciences
• 16 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Didier Queloz's birth card?

The 2 of Diamonds. February 23 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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Where do Didier Queloz's dates come from?

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