Donald A. Glaser's Birth Card: The 3 of Clubs

In the record

Donald Arthur Glaser (September 21, 1926 – February 28, 2013) was an American physicist and biologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1960 for his invention of the bubble chamber. The birth-card coordinate for September 21 is the 3 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1960 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1960 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for the invention of the bubble chamber

The 3 of Clubs coordinate

Donald A. Glaser's birthday maps to the 3 of Clubs (The Creative Communicator). 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 Donald A. Glaser. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You move an idea across more than one channel without abandoning the one that needs depth.

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Donald A. Glaser in the public record

Donald Arthur Glaser was born on September 21, 1926, in Cleveland, Ohio, to Russian Jewish immigrants, Lena and William J. Glaser, a businessman. He enjoyed music and played the piano, violin, and viola. He went to Cleveland Heights High School, where he became interested in physics as a means to understand the physical world. He died in his sleep at the age of 86 on February 28, 2013, in Berkeley, California. Glaser attended Case School of Applied Science (now Case Western Reserve University), where he completed his Bachelor of Science degree in physics and mathematics in 1946. During the course of his education there, he became especially interested in particle physics. He played viola in the Cleveland Philharmonic while at Case, and taught mathematics classes at the college after graduation.

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

Where the record meets the King of Diamonds

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 Donald A. Glaser, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.

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He experimented with hydrogen while visiting the University of Chicago, showing that hydrogen would also work in the chamber.

Paired on shared wording: showing, work.

Also on the record

1. He continued on to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he pursued his PhD in physics.
2. His interest in particle physics led him to work with Nobel laureate Carl David Anderson, studying cosmic rays with cloud chambers.
3. He preferred the accessibility of cosmic ray research over that of nuclear physics.
4. While at Caltech he learned to design and build the equipment he needed for his experiments, and this skill would prove to be useful throughout his career.

Other laureates with this card

• Angus Deaton — 2015 Economic Sciences
• Charles Nicolle — 1928 Physiology or Medicine
• David J. Thouless — 2016 Physics
• Elias Canetti — 1981 Literature
• Eugene Wigner — 1963 Physics
• Frances H. Arnold — 2018 Chemistry
• Hamilton O. Smith — 1978 Physiology or Medicine
• Hans Spemann — 1935 Physiology or Medicine
• Heike Kamerlingh Onnes — 1913 Physics
• Henri Becquerel — 1903 Physics
• Jean Dausset — 1980 Physiology or Medicine
• John B. Goodenough — 2019 Chemistry
• 14 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Donald A. Glaser's birth card?

The 3 of Clubs. September 21 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 Donald A. Glaser's dates come from?

Birth date 1926-09-21 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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