Emilio Segrè's Birth Card: The Jack of Spades

In the record

Emilio Gino Segrè ( sə-GRAY; Italian: [eˈmiːljo ˈdʒiːno seˈgrɛ]; 1 February 1905 – 22 April 1989) was an Italian-American nuclear physicist and radiochemist who discovered the elements technetium and astatine, and the antiproton, a subatomic antiparticle, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959, along with Owen Chamberlain. The birth-card coordinate for February 1 is the Jack of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1959 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1959 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for their discovery of the antiproton

The Jack of Spades coordinate

Emilio Segrè's birthday maps to the Jack of Spades (The Messenger of Truth). 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 Emilio Segrè. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You name what is actually happening and you remain after you have said it.

Live Jack of Spades meaning page

Emilio Segrè in the public record

Born in Tivoli, near Rome, Segrè studied engineering at the University of Rome La Sapienza before taking up physics in 1927. Segrè was appointed assistant professor of physics at the University of Rome in 1932 and worked there until 1936, becoming one of the Via Panisperna boys. From 1936 to 1938 he was director of the Physics Laboratory at the University of Palermo. After a visit to Ernest O. Lawrence's Berkeley Radiation Laboratory, he was sent a molybdenum strip from the laboratory's cyclotron accelerator in 1937, which was emitting anomalous forms of radioactivity. Using careful chemical and theoretical analysis, Segrè was able to prove that some of the radiation was being produced by a previously unknown element, named technetium, the first artificially synthesized chemical element that does not occur in nature. In 1938 and while Segrè was visiting the Berkeley Radiation laboratory, Benito Mussolini's fascist government passed antisemitic laws barring Jews from university positions. As a Jew, Segrè was rendered an indefinite émigré.

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

Where the record meets the 10 of Clubs

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Intellectual mastery and deep expertise

Segrè was appointed assistant professor of physics at the University of Rome in 1932 and worked there until 1936, becoming one of the Via Panisperna boys.

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

Also on the record

1. At the Berkeley Radiation Lab, Lawrence offered him an underpaid job as a research assistant.
2. There, Segrè helped discover the element astatine and the isotope plutonium-239, which was later used to make the Fat Man nuclear bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
3. From 1943 to 1946 he worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory as a group leader for the Manhattan Project.
4. He found in April 1944 that Thin Man, the proposed plutonium gun-type nuclear weapon, would not work due to the presence of plutonium-240 impurities.

Other laureates with this card

• Leymah Gbowee — 2011 Peace
• Roger Y. Tsien — 2008 Chemistry

FAQ

What is Emilio Segrè's birth card?

The Jack of Spades. February 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?

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Where do Emilio Segrè's dates come from?

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