Douglas D. Osheroff's Birth Card: The Queen of Diamonds

In the record

Douglas Dean Osheroff (born August 1, 1945) is an American physicist known for his work in experimental condensed matter physics, in particular for his co-discovery of superfluidity in Helium-3. The birth-card coordinate for August 1 is the Queen 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 Queen of Diamonds coordinate

Douglas D. Osheroff's birthday maps to the Queen of Diamonds (The Prosperous Nurturer). 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 Douglas D. Osheroff. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You protect what you have without making every dollar a referendum on safety.

Live Queen of Diamonds meaning page

Douglas D. Osheroff in the public record

For his contributions he shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics along with David Lee and Robert C. Richardson. Osheroff is currently the J. G. Jackson and C. J. Wood Professor of Physics, emeritus, at Stanford University. Osheroff was born in Aberdeen, Washington.

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

Where the record meets the 3 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 Douglas D. Osheroff, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.

Ability to articulate complex ideas clearly

Wood Professor of Physics, emeritus, at Stanford University.

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: physics, professor. This line comes from the Venus position of the Q♦'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

1. His father, William Osheroff, was the son of Jewish immigrants who left Russia.
2. His mother, Bessie Anne (Ondov), a nurse, was the daughter of Slovak immigrants (her own father was a Lutheran minister) from the Felvidék, Upper Hungary, Kingdom of Hungary.
3. Osheroff was confirmed in the Lutheran Church but he was given the chance to choose and decided not to attend any longer.
4. He has stated "In some sense it seemed that lying in church is the worst place to lie.

Other laureates with this card

• Allvar Gullstrand — 1911 Physiology or Medicine
• Artturi Virtanen — 1945 Chemistry
• Dennis Gabor — 1971 Physics
• George de Hevesy — 1943 Chemistry
• Georges Charpak — 1992 Physics
• Harald zur Hausen — 2008 Physiology or Medicine
• Martin Chalfie — 2008 Chemistry
• Martin Luther King Jr. — 1964 Peace
• Nathan Söderblom — 1930 Peace
• Nicolaas Bloembergen — 1981 Physics
• Rabindranath Tagore — 1913 Literature
• Sidney Altman — 1989 Chemistry
• 2 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Douglas D. Osheroff's birth card?

The Queen of Diamonds. August 1 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 Douglas D. Osheroff's dates come from?

Birth date 1945-08-01 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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