George Paget Thomson's Birth Card: The 3 of Spades

In the record

Sir George Paget Thomson (3 May 1892 – 10 September 1975) was a British experimental physicist who shared the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics with Clinton Davisson "for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals." His father, J. The birth-card coordinate for May 3 is the 3 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1937 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1937 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals

The 3 of Spades coordinate

George Paget Thomson's birthday maps to the 3 of Spades (The Sorrowful 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 George Paget Thomson. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You stay with the hard feeling long enough to learn it, then you let the day continue.

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George Paget Thomson in the public record

J. Thomson, won the Nobel Prize in 1906 "for his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases". It has been said that the elder Thomson won the Nobel for showing the electron is a particle, the younger for showing it is a wave. George Paget Thomson was born on 3 May 1892 in Cambridge, England, the son of physicist and Nobel laureate J. J. Thomson and Rose Elisabeth Paget, the daughter of George Edward Paget. Thomson attended The Perse School, before going on to read mathematics and physics at Trinity College, Cambridge. After graduating in 1913, he went to the Cavendish Laboratory to do research under his father, until the outbreak of World War I the following year, when he was commissioned into the Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment.

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

Where the record meets the Jack of Diamonds

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 George Paget Thomson, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.

You try a new approach to value and you finish enough of it to know if it works.

In later life, he continued this work on nuclear energy, but also wrote works on aerodynamics and the value of science in society.

Paired on shared wording: value, work.

Also on the record

1. After brief service in France, he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps the following year to undertake research on aerodynamics at the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough and elsewhere.
2. He resigned from his commission as a captain in 1920.
3. In 1919, Thomson became a Fellow of and a lecturer at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
4. In 1922, he was appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland.

Other laureates with this card

• Albert Fert — 2007 Physics
• Alfred Kastler — 1966 Physics
• Benjamin List — 2021 Chemistry
• David Baltimore — 1975 Physiology or Medicine
• Ivar Giaever — 1973 Physics
• J. M. Coetzee — 2003 Literature
• Jacques Monod — 1965 Physiology or Medicine
• Jeffrey C. Hall — 2017 Physiology or Medicine
• Joseph E. Stiglitz — 2001 Economic Sciences
• Julius Wagner-Jauregg — 1927 Physiology or Medicine
• Kailash Satyarthi — 2014 Peace
• Kip S. Thorne — 2017 Physics
• 6 more laureates share this card.

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The 3 of Spades. May 3 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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