George F. Smoot's Birth Card: The 5 of Diamonds

In the record

George Fitzgerald Smoot III (February 20, 1945 – September 18, 2025) was an American astrophysicist and cosmologist. The birth-card coordinate for February 20 is the 5 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2006 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2006 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation

The 5 of Diamonds coordinate

George F. Smoot's birthday maps to the 5 of Diamonds (The Dynamic Entrepreneur). 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 George F. Smoot. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You adjust the resource plan when the ground moves, without pretending nothing changed.

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George F. Smoot in the public record

He shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics with John C. Mather "for their discovery of the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation". This work helped further the Big Bang theory of the universe using the Cosmic Background Explorer. According to the Nobel Prize committee, "the COBE project can also be regarded as the starting point for cosmology as a precision science." In 2007, Smoot donated $500,000 to fund the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics, and an additional amount from his Nobel Prize money, less travel costs, to the East Bay Community Foundation, a charity. Smoot had been at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 1970. He was Chair of the Endowment Fund "Physics of the Universe" of Paris Center for Cosmological Physics. Apart from being elected a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Physical Society, Smoot had been honored by several universities worldwide with doctorates or professorships. He was also the recipient of the Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2006), the Daniel Chalonge Medal from the International School of Astrophysics (2006), the Einstein Medal from the Albert Einstein Society (2003), the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award from the U.S.

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

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According to the Nobel Prize committee, "the COBE project can also be regarded as the starting point for cosmology as a precision science." In 2007, Smoot donated $500,000 to fund the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics, and an additional amount from his Nobel Prize money, less travel costs, to the East Bay Community Foundation, a charity.

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Also on the record

1. Department of Energy (1995), and the Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal from NASA (1991).
2. He was a member of the advisory board of the journal Universe.
3. Smoot was one of the 20 American recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics to sign a letter addressed to President George W.
4. Bush in May 2008, urging him to "reverse the damage done to basic science research in the Fiscal Year 2008 Omnibus Appropriations Bill" by requesting additional emergency funding for the Department of Energy's Office of Science, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Other laureates with this card

• Alan Heeger — 2000 Chemistry
• Alice Munro — 2013 Literature
• Anatole France — 1921 Literature
• Bert Sakmann — 1991 Physiology or Medicine
• Christopher A. Pissarides — 2010 Economic Sciences
• Claudia Goldin — 2023 Economic Sciences
• Edward V. Appleton — 1947 Physics
• Ernest Lawrence — 1939 Physics
• F.W. de Klerk — 1993 Peace
• Fritz Lipmann — 1953 Physiology or Medicine
• Jane Addams — 1931 Peace
• John Macleod — 1923 Physiology or Medicine
• 16 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is George F. Smoot's birth card?

The 5 of Diamonds. February 20 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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