Eric Cornell's Birth Card: The Queen of Hearts

In the record

Eric Allin Cornell (born December 19, 1961) is an American physicist who, along with Carl E. The birth-card coordinate for December 19 is the Queen of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2001 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2001 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates

The Queen of Hearts coordinate

Eric Cornell's birthday maps to the Queen of Hearts (The Devoted 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 Eric Cornell. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You take care of people from presence, not from scanning for what they might need next.

Live Queen of Hearts meaning page

Eric Cornell in the public record

Wieman, synthesized the first Bose–Einstein condensate in 1995. Cornell, Wieman and Wolfgang Ketterle shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics “for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates”. Cornell was born in Palo Alto, California, where his parents were completing graduate degrees at nearby Stanford University. Two years later he moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where his father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT. Here he grew up with his younger brother and sister, with year-long stints in Berkeley, California, and Lisbon, Portugal, accompanying his father whilst on sabbatical. In Cambridge he attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. The year before his graduation he moved back to California with his mother and finished high school at San Francisco's Lowell High School, a local magnet school for academically talented students. After high school he enrolled at Stanford University, where he was to meet his future wife, Celeste Landry.

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

Where the record meets the 9 of Clubs

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Visionary thinking and big-picture perspective

Cornell, Wieman and Wolfgang Ketterle shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics “for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates”.

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

Also on the record

1. As an undergraduate he earned money as an assistant in the various low-temperature physics groups on campus.
2. He was doing well both in his courses and his jobs in the labs and seemed set for a career in physics.
3. He however doubted whether he wished to pursue such a career, or rather a different one in literature or politics.
4. Halfway through his undergraduate years he went to China and Taiwan for nine months to volunteer teaching conversational English and to study Chinese.

Other laureates with this card

• Albert A. Michelson — 1907 Physics
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• Carl Bosch — 1931 Chemistry
• Charles G. Dawes — 1925 Peace
• Dag Hammarskjöld — 1961 Peace
• Daniel L. McFadden — 2000 Economic Sciences
• Eyvind Johnson — 1974 Literature
• Felix Bloch — 1952 Physics
• George D. Snell — 1980 Physiology or Medicine
• Il´ja M. Frank — 1958 Physics
• Isidor Isaac Rabi — 1944 Physics
• Norman F. Ramsey — 1989 Physics
• 3 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Eric Cornell's birth card?

The Queen of Hearts. December 19 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 Eric Cornell's dates come from?

Birth date 1961-12-19 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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