F. Duncan M. Haldane's Birth Card: The 10 of Clubs

In the record

Frederick Duncan Michael Haldane (born 14 September 1951) is a British physicist who is currently the Sherman Fairchild University Professor of Physics at Princeton University. The birth-card coordinate for September 14 is the 10 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2016 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2016 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter

The 10 of Clubs coordinate

F. Duncan M. Haldane's birthday maps to the 10 of Clubs (The Master Builder). 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 F. Duncan M. Haldane. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You carry a finished body of knowledge and keep teaching from it.

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F. Duncan M. Haldane in the public record

He is a co-recipient of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics, along with David J. Thouless and J. Michael Kosterlitz. Haldane was educated at St Paul's School, London and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree followed by a PhD in 1978 for research supervised by Philip Warren Anderson. Haldane worked as a physicist at Institut Laue–Langevin in France between 1977 and 1981. In August 1981, Haldane became an assistant professor of physics at the University of Southern California, where he remained until 1987. Haldane was then appointed as an associate professor of physics in 1981 and later a professor of physics in 1986. In July 1986, Haldane joined the department of physics at University of California, San Diego as a professor of physics, where he remained until February 1992.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Duncan Haldane (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

Frederick Duncan Michael Haldane (born 14 September 1951) is a British physicist who is currently the Sherman Fairchild University Professor of Physics at Princeton University.

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

Also on the record

1. In 1990, Haldane was appointed as a professor of physics in the department of physics at Princeton University, where he remains to this day.
2. In 1999, Haldane was named as the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics.
3. In 2017, he was named the Sherman Fairchild University Professor of Physics.
4. From 2013 to 2018, Haldane also held a Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.

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• Carl Wieman — 2001 Physics
• Christian Anfinsen — 1972 Chemistry
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FAQ

What is F. Duncan M. Haldane's birth card?

The 10 of Clubs. September 14 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 F. Duncan M. Haldane's dates come from?

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